Latin metre

Zusatztext 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... Informationen zum Autor D.S. Raven was Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, UK. Klappentext A reference work for both students and teachers Vorwort An accessible, jargon-free reference work for students and teachers on every type Latin metre from the early "saturnian" to medieval accentual verse. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Raven David Sebastian, d s Ravens
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.1998
• EAN: 9781853995644
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-564-4
• No. of pages: 124
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm
• Series: BCP Advanced Language S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets