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The best-selling novelist, actor, and comedian offers a witty guide to writing and understanding poetry, providing an entertaining series of exercises, insights, and step-by-step advice that introduces the concepts of metre, rhyme, form, diction, and poetics and explores the various forms of poetry, including haiku, ballad, and sonnet, among others.
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"Delightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form... Fry has created an invaluable and highly enjoyable reference book."
—Publishers Weekly
"A smart, sane and entertaining return to the basics... If you like Fry’s comic manner... this book has a lot of charm... People entirely fresh to the subject could do worse than stick with his cheerful leadership."
—The Telegraph (UK)
"...intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed."
—Observer (UK)
"If you learn how to write a sonnet, and Fry shows you how, you may or may not make a poem. But you will unlock the stored wisdom of the form itself."
—Grey Gowrie, The Spectator (UK)
"...intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed."
—Observer (UK)
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"Delightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form... Fry has created an invaluable and highly enjoyable reference book."
—Publishers Weekly
"A smart, sane and entertaining return to the basics... If you like Fry’s comic manner... this book has a lot of charm... People entirely fresh to the subject could do worse than stick with his cheerful leadership."
—The Telegraph (UK)
"...intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed."
—Observer (UK)
"If you learn how to write a sonnet, and Fry shows you how, you may or may not make a poem. But you will unlock the stored wisdom of the form itself."
—Grey Gowrie, The Spectator (UK)
"...intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed."
—Observer (UK)
Stephen Fry is a bestselling novelist, comedian, and actor who has appeared in such films as A Fish Called Wanda, Wilde, A Civil Action, Bright Young Things, Gosford Park, and V for Vendetta.
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- Publication date2006
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- ISBN 13 9781592402489
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