Artificial Versifying, or the Schoolboys Recreation, A New Way to Make Latin Verses

A 14 page pamphlet publishing tables for the generation of Latin hexameter verses by anyone who knows the A.B.C. and can count to 9. Includes six tables of letters and instructions for the use of the tables, along with a brief introduction discoursing on the relationships between words and numbers. The first edition was published by John Sims in London in 1677, a second edition in 1678, and a third edition in 1679.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
English Versification for the Billion: Translating the Early Latin Poetry Generator "Artificial Versifying" (1677)	Kaeden Berg, Henry Koelling, James Ryan	2021
John Clark’s Latin Verse Machine: 19th Century Computational Creativity	Mike Sharples	2023
The General History and Description of a Machine for Composing Hexameter Latin Verses	John Clark	1848

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