Clement Wood (1888–1950)
Autore di The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book
Sull'Autore
Clement Wood was a writer, lawyer, and schoolteacher who was born in Alabama in 1883. Wood's work as editor for The Complete Rhyming Dictionary is his best remembered contribution to modern poets everywhere. Clement Wood died in 1950. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di Clement Wood
The outline of man's knowledge; the story of history, science, literature, art, religion, philosophy (1929) 19 copie
A Popular History of the World 5 copie
The Omnibus of Party Games: Formerly Published under the Title, Let's Have a Good Time Tonight (1938) 4 copie
A history of the world 3 copie
A Book of Nonsense Poems 3 copie
Hints on writing poetry 3 copie
Poets' and Songwriters' Guide: The Complete Book of Scansion for Writers of Poetry, Verse, Song Lyrics and… (1948) 2 copie
Poetry of the southern states 2 copie
More power to Your Words 2 copie
Sociology for beginners 2 copie
Flesh 2 copie
The Craft OF Poetry 2 copie
Auction Bridge for Beginners 2 copie
The Coffin 1 copia
Pope Alexander VI and His Loves 1 copia
Hints on Writing Poetry Little 1 copia
The Making of the Old Testament 1 copia
Mountain 1 copia
The earth turns south 1 copia
Glad to Earth 1 copia
Poets of America 1 copia
Best Irish Jokes 1 copia
Sorry Wrong Corpse 1 copia
Other men's wives 1 copia
Great women of antiquity 1 copia
Emerson : the man and his works 1 copia
Byron and the Women He Loved 1 copia
Shelley and the Women He Loved 1 copia
Sex in psychoanalysis 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Wood, Clement Richardson
- Data di nascita
- 1888-09-01
- Data di morte
- 1950-10-26
- Sesso
- male
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 92
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 1,167
- Popolarità
- #22,034
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 20
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1
I do find it a bit amazing that his highly opinionated and prescriptive essay is still in print, but I guess rhyming dictionaries are not on the top of the list for paying anyone to make substantial updates. In any case, it is mostly a good introduction, though he dwells too long on really obscure French forms of poetry. I am convinced that Stephen Fry used Wood's work as the basis for his brilliant "The Ode Not Taken" which provides, in a much more modern and humorous manner, the same sort of instruction, minus the non-essentials, and with integrated exercises along the way--in line with Wood's own suggestion.
As for the rhyming dictionary itself, it is laid out in a phonetic arrangement that takes a while to get used to compared to a rhyming dictionary that includes an index (or an ebook where you can easily search for the word you want to rhyme with). But by omitting an index, there is a whole lot more room for actual rhymes.
This newer version continues to insist, quite vehemently, that "north" and "forth" (and "nor" and "fore" as well) don't rhyme because the 'o' sound is different. The contention is that the 'o' in "old" and the 'o' in "for" are different sounds. But I don't buy it. Nor do the Penguin Rhyming Dictionary or Merriam-Webster Rhyming Dictionary I bought at the same time.
Of all four rhyming dictionaries I purchased, the M-W, which is organized alphabetically by the letters to be rhymed (such as "orth") may be the easiest to use. It doesn't really require an index, and you don't have to look at a lot of phonetic symbols.… (altro)