- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781407088433
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
The Ode Less Travelled
Unlocking the Poet Within
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781407088433
- Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
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
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
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