Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs by Clive Brooks

Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs by Clive Brooks

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.

'This book is a labor of love by an inspired autodidactEven 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

Clive Brooks studied music at Cambridge and taught music and English as a foreign language until his retirement. He has had a lifelong interest in Latin poetry.

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ISBN 13	9780521697408
ISBN 10	0521697409
Title	Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs
Author	Clive Brooks
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2007-11-22
Number of pages	332
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