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Vergil and Elegy offers the most comprehensive treatment to date of Vergil's relationship to elegy from a broad and satisfying variety of perspectives. Rich and thought-provoking, this collection illuminates not only Vergil's engagement with the genre of elegy but also the impact of his 'elegiac' legacy in later authors from antiquity to modern times. This book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of Vergil's oeuvre, Latin love poetry, and Augustan and imperial literature writ large. - Vassiliki Panoussi, Chancellor Professor of Classical Studies, William & Mary This major collection of critical essays addresses a notable lacuna in Vergilian scholarship: Vergil's sustained interaction with the elegiac genre across his entire oeuvre. Vergil's engagement with Greek and contemporary Latin elegiac poetry and the reception of the 'elegiac Vergil' over sixteen centuries are explored from multiple new perspectives. The authors reveal that the 'soft, ' 'thin' genre of elegy is surprisingly robust and transformative, while Vergil's engagement with the elegiac genre and its poets is far more extensive and innovative than previous scholarship has recognized. - Carole Newlands, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado Boulder

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Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Micah Y. Myers is an associate professor of classics at Kenyon College.

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