David J. Califf

A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive guide to Latin verse composition to be published in over one hundred years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781898855729
• ISBN-10: 1898855722
• Artikelnr.: 21192941

Autorenporträt

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'.

Inhaltsangabe

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