Readings from Latin Verse; With Notes

This is a teacher's gift to his students, a carefully curated journey through Latin poetry that goes where standard textbooks fear to tread. Curtis C. Bushnell compiled these selections for his own classroom, choosing poems that rarely appear in mainstream classical curricula: the fragments of lesser-known voices, the works that illuminate Roman life beyond the usual epics of conquest. Each piece comes with Bushnell's annotations, the kind of contextual scaffolding that transforms foreign text into lived experience. The collection opens with fragments from diverse poets, moving through themes of heroism, grief, love, and the particular strength of Roman civic virtue. What makes this volume sing is its purpose: it was built not for scholars in ivory towers but for young minds encountering these words for the first time, with all the patience and care that implies. For anyone studying Latin or simply drawn to the raw beauty of classical verse, this offers entry into a richer, stranger Roman world than the standard canon usually reveals.