Clive Brooks, Reading Latin Poetry Aloud: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 318; 2 CDs.
- ISBN 9780521697408.
- $38.99 (pb).
Recension par Christopher Francese (Dickinson College) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.01.18.
Présentation de l'éditeur:
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this bookseeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. Itestablishes a practical working pronunciation for Classical, Medievaland Renaissance Latin by means of a detailed analysis of the essentialknown facts, and it develops and explains a clear and practical systemof phonetic notation, based upon the International Phonetic Alphabet. Asubstantial number of poems and extracts from all periods is offeredfor practice. Issues relevant to both quantitative and rhythmicalprosody are fully discussed and translation notes are supplied to aidthe student. Each poem is fully transcribed into phonetics and isaccompanied by an English verse translation, whose main purpose is toreveal something of the literary quality of the verse. Two accompanyingCDs aid pronunciation by giving the practice words found in thepronunciation sections and offering a complete reading of the poems.
Table des matières:
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 vowelsand 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 eighteenthcenturies; Glossary of terms; Appendices (Further Study; Hints forSingers; Ennius; A Poem in the Goliardic Measure cum auctoritate; Two late sung poems).