Subjecting Verses

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History and criticism,  Latin Elegiac poetry,  Latin Erotic poetry,  Realism in literature,  Sex in literature,  Elegiac poetry, history and criticism