The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book
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The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 23, 2024 and October 11, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “putting together The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book in 1936”; “The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book is, on the surface, a book of contradictions”; “I highly recommend the 1936 edition of The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book”. It most often appears alongside Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Dominion, Don Juan.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 23, 2024
- Last seen: October 11, 2024
Appears In
- Your Book Review: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book (1936 Edition)
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Related Pages
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- Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa (2 shared issues)
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- Dominion (2 shared issues)
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- Don Juan (2 shared issues)
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- How Language Began (2 shared issues)
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- How the War Was Won (2 shared issues)
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- Nine Lives (2 shared issues)
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- Real Raw News (2 shared issues)
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- The Family That Couldn’t Sleep (2 shared issues)
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- The Pale King (2 shared issues)
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- Two Arms and a Head (2 shared issues)
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- A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (1 shared issues)
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- A Hymn to God the Father (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
If you stop right there and decide to write a book about the trip, you’re in all likelihood Clement Wood, putting together The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book in 1936. You have a grand vision in front of you about poetry, with very clear ideas as to what direction it’s going to take. There’s such a large body of poetry in English that a little bit of polyrhythm in place of strict iambic metre (or even better, this new-fangled eighty-year-old invention called ‘free verse’), and consonance or assonance instead of strict rhyme, could introduce some much-needed fresh blood into the scene. You dream of a day in which poetry is “a regular pattern, with restrained freedom and variety in its use”. You see a time when the various fixed forms like sonnets and ballades were enhanced by a healthy dose of irregularity, unlike the unforgiving metre the “poets, bound by fossilized conventions” of your day would prefer. And, eventually, a decade and a half after the book, you die peacefully, having completed a wondrous journey.
Inline links: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book is, on the surface, a book of contradictions. It’s a rhyming dictionary, prefaced by a guide to metre and the fixed poetic forms, written by a poet sick of fixed poetic conventions in general and rhyming in particular.
Overall, I highly recommend the 1936 edition of The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book to anyone who wants a genuine introduction and reference guide to the art of poetry.
1: Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa 2: Dominion 3: Don Juan 4: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep 5: How Language Began 6: Real Raw News 7: Two Arms And A Head 8: How The War Was Won 9: Silver Age Marvel Comics 10: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary And Poet’s Craft Book 11: The History Of The Rise And Influence Of The Spirit Of Rationalism In Europe 12: The Pale King 13: Nine Lives 14: The Ballad Of The White Horse
Inline links: Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Dominion, Don Juan, The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, How Language Began, Real Raw News, Two Arms And A Head, How The War Was Won, Silver Age Marvel Comics, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary And Poet’s Craft Book, The History Of The Rise And Influence Of The Spirit Of Rationalism In Europe, The Pale King, Nine Lives, The Ballad Of The White Horse
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary And Poet’s Craft Book, reviewed by David. David is a materials science PhD and programmer who blogs with co-author Felipe at The Hall of Impossible Dreams about fanfiction, poetry, video game machine learning, and fanfiction poetry about video game machine learning. He is currently looking for work, and can be reached at david@hallofdreams.org.