| Subjecting Verses The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina. The author of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness and Latin Erotic Elegy , he has edited ten volumes, including Rethinking Sexuality, (Princeton). |