Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Hardback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse - Couverture rigide

Brooks, Clive

9780521874496: Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Hardback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse

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ISBN 10 : 0521874491 ISBN 13 : 9780521874496

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Book by Brooks Clive

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'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

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