An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia by Heyworth, SJ

“…Each cycle then returns to the personal elegy of lamentation in the Tristia; but even in exile Ovid expands his range with the curse poem Ibis, and more letters. <br> What of Propertius, Ovid's predecessor as love elegist? Does he show a similar reaction to the Virgilian pattern? …”