FERGUSON ROSALIND

(P/B) PENGUIN RHYMING DICTIONARY
Milton, in his preface to Paradise Lost, complained of the 'troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming? the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre'. Yet many creators of superb matter and lilting metre, both before and since 1668 (when these words were written), have felt it necessary to make their verses rhyme. Some poets have relied on their heads to satisfy this need, others have resorted to rhyming dictionaries. Walker's Rhyming Dictionary, for example, has been in continuous publication for 150 years. A...
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