Early Latin Verse. - LINDSAY, W.M.,
KORTE INHOUD
?A big book by Professor Lindsay on the scansion of the extant verse of the early period of Latin literature (not much about Saturnians) is an event of great importance to all editors of texts and advanced students generally. They will have to study every word in it, and take their bearings to the author?s doctrine on a multitude of complicated questions of prosody, phonetics, and textual criticism. But this book makes a wider appeal. It claims to have disclosed for the first time the intonation of Latin speech as heard in the days of Plautus and Terence, and by inference in those of Cicero - ?the tone of utterance that breathes life into the dry bones of language? (Preface, p.vii) (?). It is a pity that Professor Lindsay has not presented any conspectus of his views on this matter, they have to be gathered by the reader from a multitude of passages scattered throughout the book (?) One finds little or nothing about ?intonation? in the strict sense of the term, but a great deal about pronunciation, and in par...
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Oxford, 2000. (Photomechanical reprint ed.1922 - Sandpiper ed.) XI,362p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: LINDSAY, W.M.,] [Uitgever: Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Early Latin Verse.]
