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	Latin Poetry Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Latin poetry was a major part of Latin literature during the height of the Latin language.
		A number of meters are used in Classical Latin poetry, almost all inspired by Greek originals; the most common is dactylic hexameter, followed by elegiac couplets and hendecasyllabics.
		Popular poetry, including the bulk of Christian Latin poetry, came to be written in accentual meters (sometimes incorporating rhyme, which was never systematically used in classical verse) and thus came to resemble poetry in modern European languages.
	www.createdbygod.com /encyclopedia/Latin_poetry (1090 words)

	Latin [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around RomeRome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region.
		Latin is a synthetic A Synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-to-word ratio.
		Latin spelling and pronunciationThe Roman alphabet is an adaptation of the Greek alphabet to represent the phonemes of the Latin language.
	www.wikimirror.com /Latin (5893 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Latin Literature in Christianity (Sixth To Twentieth Century)
		During the Middle Ages the so-called church Latin was to a great extent the language of poetry, and it was only on the advent of the Renaissance that classical Latin revived and flourished in the writings of the neo-Latinists as it does even today though to a more modest extent.
		To present to the reader an account of Latin poetry in a manner at once methodical and clear is not an easy task; a strict adherence to chronology interferes with clearness of treatment, and an arrangement according to the different kinds of poetry would demand a repeated handling of some of the poets.
		From Holland Latin poetry found an entrance also into the Northern Empire under the patronage of Queen Christina, while even Iceland had its representative in the Protestant Bishop Sveinsson (1605-74), who among other works published a rich collection of poems to the Blessed Virgin in the most varied ancient classical metres.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09026a.htm (5898 words)

	Didactic poetry (from Latin literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was superseded by the Romance languages it had generated and by other modern languages.
		The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution.
		It was then that writers began to abandon Latin as the language of literature and write in one of the Italian dialects used in common speech.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-12726 (785 words)

	Latin Poets - Poetry Depot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		List of Latin language poets Latin poets whose work has survived from antiquity: Ausonius Calpurnius Catullus Claudian Ennius Gallus Horace Juvenal.
		Latin poets whose work has survived from antiquity:.
		Latin poets whose work has survived from … NamatianusStatiusTibullusVirgilLater Latin poets:Petrarch.
	www.ezurbub.com /latin-poets.html (373 words)

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