The Ode Less Travelled - Unlocking the Poet Within

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster , and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder . He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the audiobook recordings. He is the bestselling author of four novels - The Stars' Tennis Balls , Making History , The Hippopotamus and The Liar - as well as three volumes of autobiography - Moab is My Washpot , The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me . Mythos and Heroes , his retelling of the Greek myths, are both Sunday Times bestsellers. Klappentext As well as being the bestselling author of four novels, The Stars' Tennis Balls , Making History , The Hippopotamus , and The Liar , and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot , Fry has played Peter in Peter's Friends , Wilde in the film Wilde , Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie . Zusammenfassung Whether 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, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Fry
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.09.2007
• EAN: 9780099509349
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950934-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Arrow Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides