{"product_id":"the-ode-less-travelled-9780099509349","title":"The Ode Less Travelled","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eIf you can speak and read English, you can write poetry.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Ode Less Travelled\u003c\/i\u003e will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple step-by-step advice, \u003ci\u003eThe Ode Less Travelled\u003c\/i\u003e guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFry'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 *\u003cbr\u003eWith 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 *\u003cbr\u003eIntelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA smart, sane and entertaining return to basics * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eFunny and instructive * Spectator *","brand":"Cornerstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732254339415,"sku":"9780099509349","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099509349.jpg?v=1719996150","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ode-less-travelled-9780099509349","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}