{"product_id":"the-ode-less-travelled-isbn-9781592403110","title":"The Ode Less Travelled","description":"\u003cb\u003eComedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In \u003ci\u003eThe Ode Less Travelled\u003c\/i\u003e, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Most of us have never been taught to read or write poetry, and so it can seem mysterious and intimidating. But Fry, a wonderfully competent, engaging teacher and a writer of poetry himself, sets out to correct this problem by explaining the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. Fry's method works, and his enthusiasm is contagious as he explores different forms of poetry: the haiku, the ballad, the villanelle, and the sonnet, among many others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of but never read. \u003ci\u003eThe Ode Less Travelled\u003c\/i\u003e is not just the survey course you never took in college, it's a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try.The Ode Less Travelled\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eHow to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Metre\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e How We Speak. Meet Metre. The Great Iamb. The Iambic Pentameter. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercises 1 \u0026amp; 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII.\u003c\/b\u003e End-stopping, Enjambment and Caesura. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 3.\u003c\/i\u003e Weak Endings, Trochaic and Pyrhhic Substitutions. Substitutions. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 4\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII.\u003c\/b\u003e More Metres: Four Beats to the Line. Mixed Feet. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 5\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV.\u003c\/b\u003e Ternary Feet: The Dactyl, The Molossus and Tribrach, The Amphibrach, The Amphimacer, Quaternary Feet. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 6\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV.\u003c\/b\u003e Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 7.\u003c\/i\u003e Sprung Rhythm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI.\u003c\/b\u003e Syllabic Verse. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercises 8 \u0026amp; 9:\u003c\/i\u003e Coleridge's \u003ci\u003e'Lesson for a Boy'.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Metric Feet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Rhyme\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI.\u003c\/b\u003e The Basic Categories of Rhyme. Partial Rhymes. Feminine and Triple Rhymes. Rich Rhyme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII.\u003c\/b\u003e Rhyming Arrangements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII.\u003c\/b\u003e Good and Bad Rhyme? A Thought Experiment. Rhyming Practice and Rhyming Dictionaries. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 10\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhyme Categories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI.\u003c\/b\u003e The Stanza. What is Form and Why Bother with It?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII.\u003c\/b\u003e Stanzaic Variations. Open Forms: Terza Rima, The Quatrain, The Rubai, Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserian Stanza. Adopting and Adapting. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 11\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII.\u003c\/b\u003e The Ballad. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exerdise 12\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV.\u003c\/b\u003e Heroic Verse. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 13\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV.\u003c\/b\u003e The Ode: Sapphic, Pindaric, Horatian, The Lyric Ode, Anacreontics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI.\u003c\/b\u003e Closed Forms: the Villanelle. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 14.\u003c\/i\u003e The Sestina. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 15.\u003c\/i\u003e The Pantoum, The Ballade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII.\u003c\/b\u003e More Closed Forms: Rondeau, Rondeau Redoublé, Rondel, Roundel, Rondelet, Roundelay, Triolet, Kyrielle. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 16\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII.\u003c\/b\u003e Comic Verse: Cento, The Clerihew. The Limerick. Reflections on Comic and Impolite Verse. Light Verse. Parody. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 17\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIX.\u003c\/b\u003e Exotic Forms: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka. Ghazal. Luc Bat. Tanaga. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 18\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX.\u003c\/b\u003e The Sonnet: Petrarchan and Shakespearean. Curtal and caudate sonnets. Sonnet Variations and Romantic Duels. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 19\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXI.\u003c\/b\u003e Shaped Verse. Pattern  Poems. Silly, Silly Forms. Acrostics. \u003ci\u003ePoetry Exercise 20\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Diction and Poetics Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI.\u003c\/b\u003e The Whale. The Cat and the Act. Madeline. Diction. Being Alert to Language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII.\u003c\/b\u003e Poetic Vices. 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. Getting Noticed. Poetry Today. Goodbye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncomplete Glossary of Poetic Terms\u003cbr\u003eAppendix—Arnaud's Algorithm\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\"While Mr. Fry's book is aimed at a general audience, it seems particularly well-suited to the lawyer or Web-site designer or homemaker or medical technician whose daily life feels distant from poetry and yet who remembers, with a yearning fondness, the joys of reading Shakespeare or Keats or Frost as an undergraduate. ... Fry understands the saving role that humor can play in any discussion of poetry's mechanics.\"\u003cbr\u003e ùBrad Leithauser, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fry is \"spot on in his assessment of the allusion-packed, overcooked, dead-on-arrival poems that are often passed of as high literature these days. ...While the comic relief is mostly welcome, Mr. Fry truly shines when ardently defending and explicating the virtues of form ... \u003ci\u003eThe Ode Less Travelled\u003c\/i\u003e is something more than a solid and engaging how-to book. 'Verse is one of our last stands against the instant and the infantile,' Mr. Fry writes in the introduction, and this book is his impassioned, worthy contribution to the cause.\"\u003cbr\u003e ùClaudia La Rocco, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Ode Less Travelled\u003c\/i\u003e is at once idiosyncratic and thoroughly traditional-- it's filled with quips, quirks and various Fry-isms, yet still manages to be a smart, comprehensive guide to prosody. ... The key to the book's success is its tone, which is joking, occasionally fussy, sometimes distractingly cute, but always approachable. This book works because it gives us a strong perspective without sounding pinched or dogmatic.\"\u003cbr\u003e ùDavid Orr, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Of all the poetry guides you're likely to read, this one's probably the most entertainingly written and downright useful. The book is full of technical terms-- spondee, enjambment, trochee-- but these are explained so clearly that we very quickly can use them as though we've been doing so all of our lives. The book is an education not only in the mechanics of poetry, but also in its history. An, naturally, it's full to bursting with the author's delightfully impish wit ... Fry's legion of fans will get an enormous kick out of it, and English Lit students will learn more from this one book than they will from a stack of more traditional textbooks.\"\u003cbr\u003e ùDavid Pitt, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A \"delightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form ... Fry himself pens intentionally vapid and yet entertaining poems that demonstrate each form's rules and patterning, and ends each lesson with wittily devised exercises for readers. ... Fry has created an invaluable and highly enjoyable reference book on poetic form, which deserves to achieve widespread academic adoption, despite or even because of its saucy and Anglocentric tone.\"\u003cbr\u003e ù\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003eStephen Fry is a bestselling novelist, comedian, and actor who has appeared in such films as \u003cb\u003eA Fish Called Wanda\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eWilde\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eA Civil Action\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBright Young Things\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eGosford Park\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eV for Vendetta\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Avery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305071464677,"sku":"NP9781592403110","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781592403110.jpg?v=1767740769","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-ode-less-travelled-isbn-9781592403110","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}