Offsite Resources on Latin Poetry
General information about classical poets, scansion, genres of Latin poetry, and prayers from elsewhere on the Internet.
A Supplement to the AP Horace
Many of the poems of Horace in Latin, with notes, from Ravenna High School Latin. Requires Shockwave.
An Odd Sort of Latin Poetry
Poetry circa 200-300 AD, accentual poetry which does not rely upon long/short syllabification, but rather on regular stress patterns. Thematic material is "thoroughly un-classical."
Essays on Some Latin Authors
Apuleius, Caesar, Catullus, Persius, Juvenal, Horace, Ovid, authors on farming, Historians, and Cicero. William Harris here tries to present information beyond the ordinary.
Latin Metre
A delightful page with an animated black figure dancer showing how poetic feet came to be. Lifting the foot up is arsis, and thumping it down again is thesis. Also explains evolution of hexameters, elegiac couplet and the missing syllable at the end of lines.