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The ties that bind women elegists to one another differ radically from what we consider normative elegiac bonds.

elegists, he argues, resist this model, try to make something

The Roman erotic elegists (Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid), (7) use this label and the power associated with it in order to establish the unbalanced nature of their love affairs.

The "most polished and elegant" of the Roman elegists (so

In the past decades the handling of Greek 'models' in for instance Roman epic, Roman comedy, Catullus and his predecessors, the Augustan elegists, and others, has often been the subject of intense study.

For idyllic simplicity, grace, tenderness, and exquisiteness of feeling and expression, Tibullus stands alone among the Roman elegists. In many of his poems, moreover, a symmetry of composition can be discerned, though they are never forced into any fixed scheme.

(10) The comic adulescentes who patronize sex laborers prefer meretrix to scortum, but more often use, much as the elegists do, euphemistic terms like arnica or blandishments that downplay the mercantile relationship.

Focused on the elegiac mode as recording both personal and larger historical losses, Rosenberg offers a wide range of penetrating judgments, with particular attention to Tennyson and Ruskin, and with chapters on Carlyle, Darwin, Swinburne, Pater, and "the Oxford Elegists" (Newman, Arnold, and Hopkins), along with an epilogue on the Victorian city as a "menacing, smoking labyrinth" (p.