Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett devoted his career to classical scholarship, and his teaching and publications shaped Latin instruction in schools and universities. What Was Ictus in Latin Prosody? first appeared in the American Journal of Philology and examined whether the organizing beat of Latin verse should be understood through stress or through quantity. The essay belongs to Bennett's sustained study of pronunciation, meter, and classroom reading, also represented by The Quantitative Reading of Latin Poetry. Educated at Brown University and later in Germany, he taught at Wisconsin and Brown before becoming professor of Latin at Cornell in 1892. He served as president of the American Philological Association and edited a series of Latin texts and teaching books. His best-known reference work developed from A Latin Grammar into the widely used New Latin Grammar. What Was Ictus in Latin Prosody? shows Bennett applying historical evidence and technical analysis to a practical problem faced by readers of classical poetry.