Book description
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.
As well as being the bestselling author of four novels,
The Stars'
Tennis Balls
,
Making History
,
The Hippopotamus
, and
The Liar
, and the first volume of his autobiography,
Moab is My Washpot
, Fry has played Peter in
Peter's Friends
, Wilde in the film
Wilde
, Jeeves in the television series
Jeeves & Wooster
and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the
television series
Fry & Laurie
.
