The Ode Less Travelled
- Author Stephen Fry
- Narrator Stephen Fry
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 9 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Creative writing and creative writing guides, Literary studies: poetry and poets.
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What to expect
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Ode Less Travelled, written and read by Stephen Fry.
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes.
Stephen, 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.
Critics Review
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Fry’s extraordinary book is an idiots’ guide to the writing of poetry, a primer, a tutorial with funny turns, an earnest textbook… You can’t but marvel at Fry’s easy familiarity with the rictameter and the rondeau redoublé and applaud the energy of his evangelistic zeal
Independent on Sunday -
With his usual wit and occasional obscenity, he takes us through an array of metrical forms and poetic structures, talking to us like a cajoling hearty teacher
Sunday Telegraph -
Intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed
Observer -
A smart, sane and entertaining return to basics
Daily Telegraph -
Funny and instructive
Spectator
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