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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within is a book by author, actor, comedian, and director Stephen Fry about writing poetry. Fry covers metre, rhyme, many common and arcane poetic forms, and offers poetry exercises, contrasting modern and classic poets.
1. Jan. 2005 · In his 'Ode Less Travelled', Stephen Fry teaches you those nuances and reveals the non-mysterious, but equally curious, parts of poetry-making. Fry writes poetry himself. He is no Coleridge, Wordsworth or Shelley - he is honest about his modesty. He is a poetry lover, an enthusiast - like you and me - who scribbles his own few lines ...
1. Jan. 2005 · In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics.
- Stephen Fry
The Ode Less Travelled is a witty and informative guide to poetic form which skilfully merges the difficult-to-tackle subject of prosody with all the entertainment value of a night spent watching QI (Fry tells us in one instance that Presbyterians is an anagram of Britney Spears).
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.
29. März 2022 · 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. Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2005. Includes bibliographical references.
1. Okt. 2006 · In the movie’s first depiction of poetical pedagogy, Williams as Keating instructs his students to open their textbook — a dry, dully diagrammatic primer by “Dr. J. Evans-Pritchard” — and then,...
