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The ode less travelled : unlocking the poet within / Stephen Fry.
Van Pelt Library PN1059.A9 F79 2006
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Fry, Stephen, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Authorship.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 357 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Gotham Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- Bestselling novelist, comedian, and actor Stephen Fry presents a witty and practical guide that's designed to give the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.
- Contents:
- Metre / Meter: how we speak
- Endings
- Anglo-Saxon attitudes
- Syllabic verse
- Rhyme: Rhyming arrangements, Good and bad rhyme, Rhyme categories
- Form: The stanza, Open forms, The ballad, Heroic verse, The ode, Closed forms, Comic verse (clerihew, limerick, etc.), Exotic forms (haiku, senryu, tanka, luc bat, etc.)
- The sonnet
- Shaped verse
- Diction and poetics today
- 10 habits of successful poets
- Arnaud's algorithm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1592402488
- OCLC:
- 71339520
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