Traditional Elegy explores several issues related to the traditional compositional techniques that lay behind archaic Greek elegy. Through investigation of elegy's metrical partitioning, its repeated phraseological patterns, and the symbiosis of those patterns with metrical anomalies, it becomes clear that oral-formulaic processes were indeed at the heart of such poetry. All in all the individual analyses of several associated topics rather than the tantalising suggestions concerning the alleged oral character of archaic elegy appear, in my opinion, to be the greatest advantage of the book ... there is no question about his book's overall merit.