Introduction
Part I: Sounds
1. Pronunciation
2. Verbal Music
2.I. The controversy
2.II. Ancient ideas about euphony and cacophony
2.II(a) Letters, syllables, words
2.II(b) Collocation of words
2.II(c) Alliteration
2.II(d) Assonance
2.II(e) Rhyme
2.III. The reality of verbal music
3. Expressiveness
3.I. Expressive words
3.II. Expressiveness in literature
3.III. Varieties of expressive technique
3.III(a) Subjective mouth-gesture
3.III(b) Objective imitation of sound
3.III(c) Objective imitation of rhythm
3.III(d) Objective mouth-gesture
3.III(e) Association
3.III(f) Appropriate euphony and cacophony
3.III(g) Appropriate configuration of words
3.III(h) Metaphor from sound-values
3.III(i) Metaphor from word order
3.III(j) Expressive repetition
3.III(k) Metaphor from rhythm
3.III(l) Metaphor from verse-technique
3.III(m) Compound effects
3.IV. Expressiveness in Virgil, Georgics, I, 43-392
3.V. Expressiveness in some other poets
Part II: Rhythms
4. Verse Rhythm
4.I. Accent, quantity, ictus
4.II. Caesura
4.III. Popular verse
4.IV. Lyric verse
4.IV(a) Catullus
4.IV(b) Horace
4.IV(b)(i) General
4.IV(b)(ii) Sapphics
4.IV(b)(iii) Alcaics
4.IV(b)(iv) Asclepiads
4.V. Dactylic verse
4.V(a) Restrictive rules
4.V(b) The Pulse-Accent theory
4.V(b)(i) General statement
4.V(b)(ii) Illustrations
4.V(b)(ii)(α) Hexameter caesuras
4.V(b)(ii)(β) Hexameter endings
4.V(b)(ii)(γ) Pentameter endings
4.V(b)(iii) Further evidence
4.V(b)(iv) Expressive effects
4.V(b)(v) Summing up
4.V(c) Hexameter rhythm
4.V(d) Elegiac rhythm
5. Prose rhythm
5.I. General considerations
5.I(a) The legacy of Aristotle
5.I(b) The comparative method
5.I(c) Feet, ictus and verse-sections
5.I(d) Clausulae
5.I(e) Beginnings and middles
5.II. Development of prose rhythm at Rome
5.II(a) Early prose
5.II(b) Cicero and the rhetorical tradition
5.II(c) Sallust and the historical tradition
5.III. Conclusion
Part III: Structure
6. Periodic prose
6.I. Nature of the period
6.I(a) The legacy of Aristotle
6.I(b) Views of Demetrius and 'Longinus'
6.I(c) Views of Cicero and Quintilian
6.I(d) Features of the period
6.II. Artistic structure in Latin prose
6.II(a) Oratory
6.II(b) History
7. Architectonics of verse
7.I. General
7.II. Hexameters
7.III. Elegiacs
7.IV. Lyrics: Horace
7.IV(a) Meinke's law
7.IV(b) Periodic structure
8. Word-patterns
8.I. Hyperbaton in general
8.II. Hexameters: Virgil
8.III. Lyrics: Horace
Appendix I: Rival Theories to the Pulse-Accent Theory of Latin Dactylic Verse
A. Various explanations
A(1) Hexameter caesuras
A(2) Verse-endings
A(2)(a) Hexameters
A(2)(b) Pentameters
B. Answers to some criticisms of the Pulse-Accent theory
Appendix II: Some Modern Theories of Latin Prose Rhythm
A. Clausulae
B. Beginnings and middles
References in the text
Index of modern works cited
Index of passages cited
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