The forces traditionally assumed are elitism aestheticism (the credo of "art for art's sake"), and irony realism and romanticism are sometimes rejected, sometimes suggested as central. Thus a crucial debate has arisen concerning the principal forces that define the Alexandrian poetic sensibility. I would also like to thank my family and friends for their steady faith in my work and ideas.īecause of current attention to the effects of ethnicity, class, and gender, as well as colonialism and patronage, on audience reception of works of art and on the creative imagination, readers today are in a position to pose new questions of Hellenistic poetry which were relevant to its contemporary audience but perhaps not as accessible to formulation by past generations of scholars. I am very grateful to the anonymous readers of the University of California Press for their careful attention and valuable comments, which helped improve the book significantly, to Anthony Bulloch and Erich Gruen for their helpful suggestions as series editors, and to Mary Lamprech, Tony Hicks, Alice Falk, Diana Murin, and Roberta Engleman for their generous support and assistance in preparing the manuscript for the Press.
While formulating these ideas, I delivered several papers at academic conferences, and I would like to thank the audiences for their comments. I also thank my students, particularly the members of my courses on gender and identity, for their willingness to listen to fledgling ideas. Trinity University awarded me the John Rogers Faculty Fellowship, which provided support for three summers to work on the book. I am thankful for the interest and support of my colleagues at Trinity University during the period of my writing this book, particularly Colin Wells and James Pearce.
David Stinchcomb read the entire manuscript with great care and provided a general reader for me to address. Amelia Van Vleck read portions of an early version of this book and gave helpful advice. I am particularly grateful to Florence Verducci for her early confidence and support. I would also like to thank my many other teachers at the University of California, Berkeley. My greatest debt is to my teacher and friend, Anthony Bulloch, who started me reading Hellenistic poetry and whose example of scholarly excellence has been an inspiration ever since.
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