A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition (Anthem Classics and Classical Studies)
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.
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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.
PrefacePreliminary remarks1Sect. IRhythm and Meter in English and Latin Poetry2Sect. IIGeneral Rules for Determining the Quantity of Syllables5Sect. IIIThe Dactylic Hexameter9Sect. IVThe Caesura14Sect. VVariations and Irregularities17Sect. VIGreek Words and Names25Sect. VIISound and Sense28Sect. VIIARhythm29Sect. VIIBConsonants and Vowels33Sect. VIICWord Order38Sect. VIIICircumlocution66Sect. IXThe Elegiac Meter92Sect. XThe Sapphic Meter108Sect. XIThe Alcaic Meter124Sect. XIIAsclepiadic Meters143Sect. XIIIThe Hendecasyllabic Meter166Sect. XIVIambic Meters177Metrical Tables195Glossary of Terms201Modern Latin Poets Represented in the Exercises210Bibliography212
