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Latin Metre

Autor D.S. Raven
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 1998
This is an accessible, jargon free reference work, written in the simplest possible terms, for students and teachers, covering every type Latin metre from the early "saturnian" to medieval accentual verse."In this companion volume to his Greek Metre, D.S. Raven has provided a work of reference which will be useful not only the undergratuate and [A-level] student but also many teachers of Latin. On every kind of metre, from the primitive "saturnian" to medieval accentual, information is given in the simplest possible terms. There are metrical notes on selected authors and an index of technical terms. With this introduction at hand, no-one who reads any kind of Latin poetry has legitimate grounds for thinking that questions of metre are too difficult or boring." - Times Literary Supplement"His aim is to simplify, thus helping students who recoil from the quantitative metres 'with quite unjustifiable alarm'. Whether they embark on the perilous seas of verse composition or only read the Roman poets, they will profit greatly..." - Greece and Rome
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781853995644
ISBN-10: 1853995649
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 137 x 215 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bristol Classical Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Covers every kind of metre, from the primitive "saturnian" to medieval accentual, in the simplest possible terms

Notă biografică

D.S. Raven was Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, UK.

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroductory Note1. Latin Verse Structure and History2. Quantity, Prosody and the Basic Rhythms3. Word Accent; Saturnian Verse; the Influence of Accent throughout Latin Verse Literature 4. Iambic and Trochaic Verse5. Dactylic Verse and Simple Dactylic Compounds 6. Anapaestic Verse7. Bacchaic and Cretic Verse8. Ionic Verse9. Aeolic VerseIndex A: Names of Various Metrical Forms and TermsIndex B: References to Authors and PassagesAppendix A: A note on Prose Rhythm and Ciceronian 'Clausulae'Appendix B: Metrical Notes on Selected Authors

Recenzii

In this companion volume to his Greek Metre, D.S. Raven has provided a work of reference which will be useful not only the undergratuate and [A-level] student but also t many teachers of Latin. On every kind of metre, from the primitive "saturnian" to medieval accentual, information is given in the simplest possible terms. There are metrica notes on selected authors and an index of technical terms . With this introduction at hand, no-one who reads any kind of Latin poetry has legitimate grounds for thinking that questions of metre are too difficult or boring.
His aim is to simplify, thus helping students who recoil from the quantitative metres 'with quite unjustifiable alarm'. Whether they embark on the perilous seas of verse composition or only read the Roman poets, they will profit greatly...

Descriere

The aim of this title is to provide a reference work for both students and teachers on every kind of Latin metre from the early "saturnian" to medieval accentual verse. The information provided aims to be in its simplest form to make the subject more accessible and jargon free.