Klincksieck.Įlegant and accessible introduction to the discipline, defining basic concepts of meter and prosody and describing the meters with reference to and illustration from poetry. of Oklahoma Press.Ī succinct study, but the second half, by Halporn and Ostwald (a translation of their Lateinische Metrik ), is a useful basic introduction, covering essential concepts and the individual meters, with a glossary of technical terms and list of meters. Halporn, James W., Martin Ostwald, and Thomas G. Drexler’s strong position on the matter of verse ictus is not underplayed. It tackles essential concepts of meter and the various meters, with special attention to the range of verse structures favored in each form. Introduction to Roman meter, though a challenging one that assumes a certain level of preexisting knowledge. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms.Ī concise introduction, providing essential information on prosody, the structures of Latin verse, the individual meters and metrical systems used by Latin poets, and the development of accentual verse in late Antiquity.ĭrexler, Hans. Sections on the essential character of the Latin language (including a minority view on the nature of the Latin accent), issues of prosody (with a special focus on pre-Classical verse), and a description of meters, again with an emphasis on drama, but it assumes too much in the way of basic knowledge of metrics to be a true introduction.Ĭrusius, Friedrich, and Hans Rubenbauer. 1980 Nougaret 1948 Raven 1965 Crusius and Rubenbauer 1997 and Zgoll 2012 all offer accessible general accounts of the field Boldrini 1999 and Drexler 1967 are respected general accounts but less immediately accessible for beginners.īoldrini, Sandro. All introductory and general accounts of Roman meter will begin by explaining the essential rules of ancient versification: the definition of syllables, their classification as long and short (or heavy and light) the foot and metron (dipody), and the metrical pauses known as caesura and diaeresis along with fundamental principles of prosody (the relation of abstract meter to the actual language of verse) such as elision, hiatus, and ancipitia (positions that may be filled by syllables of either quantity). Roman meter of the Classical period (or at least all that is fully understood) is quantitative in nature, meaning that the metrical schemes are based on the regulation of the length and number of syllables.
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