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Latin Metre

Latin Metre

Raven, D. S.
Raven, David Sebastian

Paperback

Series: Bcp Advanced Language S

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ISBN10: 1853995649
ISBN13: 9781853995644
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 26 1998
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

This is an accessible, jargon free reference work, written in the simplest possible terms, for students and teachers, covering every type Latin metre from the early saturnian to medieval accentual verse.

In this companion volume to his Greek Metre, D.S. Raven has provided a work of reference which will be useful not only the undergratuate and [A-level] student but also many teachers of Latin. On every kind of metre, from the primitive saturnian to medieval accentual, information is given in the simplest possible terms. There are metrical notes on selected authors and an index of technical terms. With this introduction at hand, no-one who reads any kind of Latin poetry has legitimate grounds for thinking that questions of metre are too difficult or boring. - Times Literary Supplement

His aim is to simplify, thus helping students who recoil from the quantitative metres 'with quite unjustifiable alarm'. Whether they embark on the perilous seas of verse composition or only read the Roman poets, they will profit greatly... - Greece and Rome

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