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The expectations aroused by this part of the program are likewise confounded by the placement of 4.8.","Chapter IV argues that 4.2 is, among other things a clever variant of a common poetic conceit, the author's apostrophe to his book, and that, as such, it also provides clues to the book's structure by anticipating how the poet will vary generic form and narrative stance in the elegies to follow.","In the light of these arguments, Chapter V reconsiders the pyramidal structure proposed by Grimal (amoung others) and speculates on what may have been the original form and position of the present 4.8.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T18:37:01Z (GMT). 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