A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition

by David J. Califf, John Traupman (Editor)

Overview

This textbook is the first comprehensive guide to Latin verse composition to be published in over one hundred years. It combines a detailed analysis of the Roman poets' metrical practices with a series of graduated exercises designed to train the student in the composition of original Latin verse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781898855729
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Anthem Learning Series
Edition description:	First Edition, 1
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David J. Califf teaches Latin at the Academy of Notre Dame in Villanova, Pennsylvania. He has published widely on Latin poetry and verse composition, and a number of his Latin poems have appeared in 'The Classical Outlook'.

Table of Contents

Preface; Preliminary Remarks; Rhythm and Meter in English and Latin Poetry; General Rules for Determining the Quantity of Syllables; The Dactylic Hexameter; The Caesura; Variations and Irregularities; Greek Words and Names; Sound and Sense; Rhythm; Consonants and Vowels; Word Order; Circumlocution; The Elegiac Meter; The Sapphic Meter; The Alcaic Meter; Asclepiadic Meters; The Hendecasyllabic Meter; Iambic Meters; Metrical Tables; Glossary of Terms; Modern Latin Poets Represented in the Exercises; Bibliography