the dactylic hexameter of Homer and other epic poetry). Armand D’Angour, a professor of classics at Oxford University, has ...
Elegiac couplets (a dactylic hexameter followed by an elegiac pentameter), for instance, a meter associated with “inscriptions and epitaphs,” “love elegy” and “Greek and Latin epigram ...
MICHAEL Gove, the Westminster Education Secretary, plans to take the primary schools in his charge back to the 1950s. He wants pupils to be proficient in the three Rs. From the age of five they ...