Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry

Abstract

Preface ix CHAPTER ONE: Homer I: Poetry and Speech 1 The Older Discoveries: Frankel and Parry 2 The New Theories. Functional Grammar and the Grammar of Speech 9 Homeric Style in Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur 14 Homeric Style in the Duels of Achilles 18 CHAPTER TWO: Homer 11: Scenes and Summaries 38 The Book Divisions 39 The Paragraph Divisions 47 Joining Episode to Episode 53 Continuity and Oral Poetics 58 CHAPTER THREE: Music and Meaning in Three Songs of Aeschylus 62 The First Choral Song (Agamemnon 104-257) 71 The Second Choral Song (Agamemnon 367-488) 81 The Third Choral Song (Agamemnon 681-781) 88 The Rest of the Agamemnon, and of the Trilogy 95 CHAPTER FOUR: Poetry in the Latin Language 99 Latin Word Order 99 Ambiguity in Latin Verse 105 Propertius 1.19 109 AFTERWORD 125 APPENDIX A: Tennyson's Morte d'Arthur 129 APPENDIX B: Continuity in Mrs. Dalloway 149 APPENDIX C: The Performance of Homeric Episodes 151 APPENDIX D: Classical Meters in Modern English Verse 166 REFERENCES 179 INDEX 189

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