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

Brooks, Clive

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521874491 ISBN 13: 9780521874496

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

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.

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Review:

'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

Book Description:

Enables students of all kinds to read Latin poetry aloud with confidence. It contains about seventy Latin poems covering the period c. 200 BC – c. AD 1800, accompanied by full assistance with pronunciation and translation and two CDs as an audio aid.

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