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Mythos - Stephen Fry – Penguin, 2017 / Circe - Madeline Miller - Bloomsbury, 2018
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Unlike their Norse equivalents, I can't remember the book in which I first read about the gods and mortals of ancient Greece - it may have been Roger Lancelyn Green again, or possibly even Robert Graves. For Stephen Fry it was (probably) Enid Blyton, which is reason enough to justify a re-telling now.
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29 Mar 06
The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry - Hutchinson, 2005
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Poetry, like ballet and sculpture, is an art form with which I have never really got on. I do see the beauty in, say, a Shakespeare sonnet, but the only poems I really enjoy are comic ballads (such as those of WS Gilbert) and doggerel with clever wordplay. Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and Tennyson leave me cold and John Donne I find incomprehensible. This is odd because I am interested in words and language, so poetry should be a form with which I have a natural affinity. But it ain't so - as will be evident to regular readers of this blog, I prefer clarity to elegant expression, and certainly have never felt an overwhelming urge to express myself in verse. Stephen Fry has, however, convinced me that I may have been missing out.
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