Clement Wood (1888–1950)
Autor(a) de The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book
About the Author
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)
Obras por Clement Wood
The outline of man's knowledge; the story of history, science, literature, art, religion, philosophy (1929) 19 exemplares
A Popular History of the World 5 exemplares
The Omnibus of Party Games: Formerly Published under the Title, Let's Have a Good Time Tonight (1938) 4 exemplares
A Book of Nonsense Poems 3 exemplares
Hints on writing poetry 3 exemplares
A history of the world 3 exemplares
Poets' and Songwriters' Guide: The Complete Book of Scansion for Writers of Poetry, Verse, Song Lyrics and… (1948) 2 exemplares
More power to Your Words 2 exemplares
Poetry of the southern states 2 exemplares
An Introduction to Philology (The Science of Language) (Little Blue Book Number 708) (1924) 2 exemplares
Auction Bridge for Beginners 2 exemplares
Sociology for beginners 2 exemplares
The Craft OF Poetry 2 exemplares
Flesh 2 exemplares
Pope Alexander VI and His Loves 1 exemplar
The Coffin 1 exemplar
The Stone Age: Little Blue Book No. 481 1 exemplar
The Making of the Old Testament 1 exemplar
Mountain 1 exemplar
Sorry Wrong Corpse 1 exemplar
History of Rome (Little Blue Book no. 126) 1 exemplar
NEGRO SONGS. Little Blue Book No. 626 1 exemplar
The earth turns south 1 exemplar
Glad to Earth 1 exemplar
Poets of America 1 exemplar
Best Irish Jokes 1 exemplar
The Art and Technique of Poetry Writing 1 exemplar
Sex in psychoanalysis 1 exemplar
wood's unabridged rhyming dicitonary 1 exemplar
Other men's wives 1 exemplar
Great women of antiquity 1 exemplar
Emerson : the man and his works 1 exemplar
Byron and the Women He Loved 1 exemplar
Shelley and the Women He Loved 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
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- Nome legal
- Wood, Clement Richardson
- Data de nascimento
- 1888-09-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1950-10-26
- Sexo
- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 91
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 1,153
- Popularidade
- #22,291
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 8
- ISBN
- 20
- Línguas
- 1
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- 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.… (mais)