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Chapter Eight of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores the literary works of Roman poet Ovid, including "Amores," "Heroides," and "Ars Amatoria," and focuses on how the subject is abstracted from the concrete verities of contemporary Roman life. It adds that the subject position of the amatory elegy is not abandoned by the exilic poetry, but is recasted by it.

Chapter Six of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores the literary works of Roman poet Ovid, and mentions that it depict an ambivalent nature and contains tight rhetorical constructions with frequent epigrammatic twists. It adds that his poetry is the product of an anomie in which the Roman republican past, integrated with its totalitarian structure, puts emphasis on public life that no longer plays a real part.

Chapter Three of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores the poems of Latin poets Gaius Valerius Catullus and Sextus Propertius and looks at the depiction of their great love, Lesbia and Cyntia, in the poems. It examines the impact of Gallus on the poetry of Propertius, and his semiotic function in the book "Monobiblos."

Chapter Five of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores the book "Monobiblos," book 2, of Latin poet Sextus Propertius, and examines the ways in which Propertius fashions an anomalous subject position by identifying himself simultaneously with Augustan and anti-Augustan positions. It argues that Propertian subject position created approximates of a woman, that are defined by post-Lacanian feminists.

Chapter Seven of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores "Book IV" of Latin poet Sextus Propertius, and mentions that it present a widely perceived incoherence and a sense of ideological closure. It highlights how his poems displace the subject's emotional coherence and emphasizes a form of ideological totalization.

Chapter Two of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It provides a brief description of Latin Poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, and mentions that he is a rebel who invokes traditional values as wekk as a spontaneous and passionate poet who composes complex learned poetry. It argues that the anomalous nature of his poetry is central to his identity as an elegiac precursor, and not accidental.

Chapter Four of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It explores the poems of Latin poet Albius Tibullus and argues that his poems are best read as complex, multivoiced, dream texts that construct a world at once idyllic and nightmarish. It highlights the inconstant quality of the verses in the poems of Tibullus and its subject, which presented many problems for the poet's modern readers.

Chapter One of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller is presented. It introduces the purpose of the book, wherein it provides a history or genealogy of the Latin love elegies. It offers a brief history and mentions that it is based from the poetry of Roman poet Ovid and Latin poet Gaius Valerius Catullus.

People who the author would like to thank for their assistance in the creation of the book "Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy & the Emergence of the Real," by Paul Allen Miller are mentioned including Barbara Gold, Carl Rubino, and Kevin Herbert.