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Latin Literature Latin Literature Catullus Metamorphoses MetamorphosesOvid(Publius Ovidius Nasa) (43BC-18AD) Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Heroic couplet A traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme is always masculine (with only one rhyming syllable). Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is also widely credited with first extensive use of iambic pentameter. Later, John Dryden further developed it. Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Poetic Feet (ˉ = macron, ? = breve) Metamorphoses Poetic Feet (ˉ = macron, ? = breve) Metamorphoses Poetic Feet (ˉ = macron, ? = breve) Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses Metamorphoses * translated into English verse under the direction ofSir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands [1717] Samuel Garth (1661--1719): English physician and poet. He was a zealous Whig, the friend of Addison and, though of different political views, of Pope. He ended his career as physician to George I, who knighted him in 1714. John Dryden (9 August 1631 -- 1 May 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott named him Glorious John. Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 -- 30 May 1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet. Jose