The Ode Less Travelled
by Stephen Fry


  
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Book Description

If you’ve ever had a secret hankering to write poetry, or even to understand it better (how it works, how to “get” a poem), you’ll want to check out Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. It turns out that Fry, who’s best known as an actor (Gosford Park and V for Vendetta, among others) and a comedian, is a secret poet; his newest book grew out of a belief that while talent may be inborn, anyone can learn the techniques of writing verse. Reading Fry’s book, you’ll find yourself both charmed and educated in the ways and means of poetry, including meter, rhyme, as well as the various forms a poem can take. The last chapter includes a must-read section called “Ten Habits of Successful Poets that They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Poetry School, or Chicken Verse for the Soul Is from Mars but You Are What You Read in Just Seven Days or Your Money Back.” Fry includes interesting writing exercises in every chapter that should get that inner poet in all of us revved up to try our hand at an ode, a sestina, a pantoum, a sonnet, a haiku, or a limerick.