M.L. Gasparov, A History of European Versification, translated by R. Ibrahim and A. Machoninová. Praha, Dauphin 2012, 423pp.

Abstract

________________________________________ The subject under discussion is work of Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov, a Russian classicist and a world-renowned authority on versology. This book was originally published as Ocherk istorii evropeiskogo stikha in 1989.

This review is concerned with chapters refering to basic versologic problems and also to greek and roman metric.

Keywords

• versology
• european vers
• greek metric
• roman metric