Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse

by Llewelyn Morgan

A characteristic of Greek and Latin poetry (sometimes an intimidating one) is the variety of metrical shapes it can adopt. Llewelyn Morgan offers an accessible account of some of the most common of these metres in Roman poetry, and explains how the poets can exploit them to support, supplement, or indeed drive the meaning of the poems they carry. Metre is revealed as an aspect of Roman poetry which is every bit as creative as its word play, and new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199554188
• ISBN13: 9780199554188
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"