A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition (Wimbledon Publishing Classics) - Softcover

Califf, David J.

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9781898855729: A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition (Wimbledon Publishing Classics)

Synopsis

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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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'.

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