Reading Latin poetry aloud : a practical guide to two thousand years of verse /

Reading Latin poetry aloud : a practical guide to two thousand years of verse /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brooks, Clive, 1934-
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description:	xi, 318 p. ; 25 cm. + 2 CDs.
Language:	English
Subject:	Latin poetry -- Translations into English. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Translations into English. Latin language -- Pronunciation by foreign speakers. Latin language -- Phonetics. Oral interpretation of poetry. Latin language -- Phonetics. Latin poetry. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern. Oral interpretation of poetry. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7181228

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ISBN:	9780521874496 (hbk.) 0521874491 (hbk.) 9780521697408 (pbk.) 0521697409 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes 2 sound discs. Includes bibliographical references. English text with some Latin.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Measuring up
2. The sounds of Classical Latin
3. Classical prosody and the dactylic hexameter
4. The elegiac couplet
5. Iambics
6. Aeolic verse
7. The sounds of Medieval Latin
8. Medieval hexameters
9. Other quantitative metres
10. Medieval vowels and rhythmical verse
11. Medieval rhythms I
12. Medieval rhythms II
13. Early Modern pronunciation
14. Renaissance verse I
15. Renaissance verse II
Postscript: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Glossary of terms
Appendices