Abstract
Part I. The Elizabethan understanding of Latin metre: 1. Problems of Latin prosody 2. The Elizabethan pronunciation of Latin 3. The Elizabethan reading of Latin verse 4. Latin prosody in the Elizabethan grammar school 5. Vowel-length, quantity and accent 6. Continental discussions of Latin quantity Part II. English Verse and classical metre: 7. Attitudes towards accentual verse 8. The quantitative movement - causes 9. The quantitative movement - magnitude 10. The quantitative movement - characteristics Part III. Quantative poets and theorists: 11. Uncompromising imitation - Richard Stanyhurst 12. Scholarship and sensitivity - Sir Philip Sidney 13. 'Our new famous enterprise' - Spenser, Harvey and Fraunce 14. Four approaches to quantitative verse 15. Theory and compromise - Puttenham and Campion.
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