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      The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

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      Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simp...

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      Product ID:9780099509349
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:The Ode Less Travelled
      Subtitle:A guide to writing poetry
      Authors:Author: Stephen Fry
      Page Count:384
      Subjects:Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: poetry & poets
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      Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

      If you can speak and read English, you can write poetry.

      The trick is knowing where to start. Stephen Fry, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms.

      Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover''s birthday, an epithalamion for your sister''s wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government''s housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so.

      Brimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple step-by-step advice, The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.


      Imprint Name:Arrow Books Ltd
      Publisher Name:Cornerstone
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2007-09-06

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      Weight268 g
      Dimensions196 × 129 × 25 mm