.... There is a fine line between autonomy and heteronomy, a line that is continually redrawn by the poets themselves as they struggle to maintain a stance of integrity. The distinction is especially in danger of collapsing when we reflect that one probable function of the rhetoric of poetic autonomy is to confer...

... tellingly overwrought, textual devices and conventions—continues at the turn of the millennium to legitimate virtually all the figures and institutions operating in the field of poetic production. It highlights the ways in which debut paratexts evoke the ideal of poetic autonomy even as they call...

... rhetoric. We have had occasion to observe throughout this study how the question of Roman poetic autonomy is closely connected with questions of permanence and continuity. An activity that is fragmented, dispersed amidst numerous small occasions of utility and diversion, necessarily lacks the cohesion...