A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
By (Author) David J. Califf
Anthem Press
Anthem Press
1st July 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
808.1
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 155mm, Height 234mm, Spine 26mm
454g
Description
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.
Author Bio
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'.
