"Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness" presents a model for studying
the history of lyric as a genre. Paul Allen Miller draws a
distinction between the work of the Greek lyricists and the more
condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then
confronts the theoretical issues and presents a sophisticated,
Bakhtinian reading of the development of the lyric form from its
origins in archaic Greece to the more individualist style of
Augustan Rome.
The book examines different forms of poetic subjectivity projected
by ancient authors--Archilochus, Sappho, Catullus and
Horace--through a close reading of both their texts and contexts.
Miller argues that what is considered lyric--a short personal poem
which reveals a reflexive subjective consciousness--is only
possible in a culture of writing. It is the lyric collection which
creates literary consciousness as we know it. This consciousness
also requires a social structure where individuals can speak in
their own names, not merely in that of their state or class.
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