THE fascination of Latin poetry is to many inexplicable. Its detects as literature have been often pointed out. It has been pronounced an exotic from first to last; its forms, subjects, and much of ...

Latin is certainly not a dead language on the University of Arizona campus, as students of all skill levels are invited to join the new Composing Latin Poetry club. According to Sarah McCallum, an ...

ROMAN poetry begins in 514 (about 240 B. C.) with Livius Andronicus, who translated the Odyssey into Saturnian verse, — a work about which we know nothing that is interesting except that Horace ...

Ovid, poet of love: Many anonymous works written after his death came to be ascribed to him, “whether or not their authors were trying to imitate his style or not,” according to Ralph ...

Here’s the answer to a hypothetical “Jeopardy” query: “Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?” And now, the question: “Which modern Latin American poets could an average U.S. reader likely name without using ...

Prof. Emeritus W. Ralph Johnson, a distinctive critic of Latin poetry and the renowned University of Chicago author of multiple books on Latin and comparative literature, passed away on April 13. He ...

Poetry isn't just for highbrow bookworms and literature buffs. Recently, Instagram phenomenons like poet Rupi Kaur and her 4.4 million followers, as well as inspiring trailblazers like Amanda Gorman, ...

After more than 30 frenetic years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty, who shepherded several novels, including “Flowers in the Attic” and “Life of Pi,” onto bestseller lists, learned the wisdom ...

Any student of Latin lyric poetry will tell you that Catullus’ poems get pretty raunchy, obsessed with genitalia, semen, and sex in general. But one of his poems is so vulgar that an uncensored modern ...