Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse
Cambridge University Press, 11/22/2007
EAN 9780521697408, ISBN10: 0521697409
Paperback, 332 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.3 cm
Language: English,Latin
Originally published in English
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It establishes a practical working pronunciation for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Latin by means of a detailed analysis of the essential known facts, and it develops and explains a clear and practical system of phonetic notation, based upon the International Phonetic Alphabet. A substantial number of poems and extracts from all periods is offered for practice. Issues relevant to both quantitative and rhythmical prosody are fully discussed and translation notes are supplied to aid the student. Each poem is fully transcribed into phonetics and is accompanied by an English verse translation, whose main purpose is to reveal something of the literary quality of the verse. Two accompanying CDs aid pronunciation by giving the practice words found in the pronunciation sections and offering a complete reading of the poems.
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.
'This book is a labor of love by an inspired autodidact. Even those with no special interest in recitation will enjoy the anthology of passages. It will be valuable to classicists like myself who want to explore later Latin, to singers, and to lovers of Latin poetry everywhere.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review