Dirk Sacre, PhD
Dirk Sacre is professor of Latin at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He received his PhD in philology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Sacre is a member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae in Rome. He was a professor of Latin at the University of Antwerp from 1987 to 1998. His main interest is in Neo-Latin poetry. He has also published on Erasmus, Lipsius, and other humanities. Sacre wrote the foreword to Smith's English-Latin Dictionary (American Book Company, 1871; reprinted by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000) and is coeditor with Marcel Smets of Tonight They All Dance: 92 Latin and English Haiku (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1999).
Books by Dirk Sacre, PhD
Smith's English-Latin Dictionary
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- 4916
- 978-0-86516-491-8
Smith's English-Latin Dictionary is an invaluable resource for students and teachers who are composing Latin verse and prose. It offers what smaller and less comprehensive dictionaries cannot — semantic range, depth, and precision. Each entry is composed of an English word, its corresponding Latin equivalents, and examples drawn from a full range of classical writers. The Index of Proper Names contains the Latin forms of names of thousands of persons, places, and geographical features from Greco-Roman history and mythology, as well as the Judeo-Christian Bible.
Tonight They All Dance: 92 Latin & English Haiku
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- 441X
- 978-0-86516-441-3
Elegant simplicity: Haiku in Latin, with English translation. Tonight They All Dance can serve as a primer to the composition of Latin verse and, as such, can lend students and scholars alike insight into the intricacies and joys of writing poetry in a non-native language. Haiku, with its short form and engaging content, is the ideal instrument for a first exploration of Latin poetic composition. By modeling the composition of Latin haiku and translating both the substance and the form into English haiku, students will begin to understand the challenges of accurate and beautiful translation. It is only through such intimate experience that a true sense of Latin verse can be gained.
Tonight They All Dance: 92 Latin & English Haiku
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- 4401
- 978-0-86516-440-6
Elegant simplicity: Haiku in Latin, with English translation. Tonight They All Dance can serve as a primer to the composition of Latin verse and, as such, can lend students and scholars alike insight into the intricacies and joys of writing poetry in a non-native language. Haiku, with its short form and engaging content, is the ideal instrument for a first exploration of Latin poetic composition. By modeling the composition of Latin haiku and translating both the substance and the form into English haiku, students will begin to understand the challenges of accurate and beautiful translation. It is only through such intimate experience that a true sense of Latin verse can be gained.
