Res metrica : an introduction to the study of Greek & Roman versification / by the late William Ross Hardie
1934, 2nd edition. Oxford : The Clarendon Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #444447
Physical description: xii, 275, [1] pages diagrams 20 cm. Contents: Part I: The simpler and more familiar forms of verse -- 1. The heroic hexameter -- 2. The collocation of words in epic verse (elision, hiatus etc) -- 3. The elegiac couplet -- 4. Anapaests -- 5. Iambic verse -- 6. The scazon or choliambus -- 7. The trochaic tetrameter and septenarius -- 8. Hendecasyllabics or phalaecei -- Part II: -- 1. Greek lyric verse -- 2. The history of metre at Rome -- 3. Lyric metres of Horace. Subjects: Greek language Metrics and rhythmics. Latin language Metrics and rhythmics.
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