I certainly agree with you that the prose/verse division is at best irksome and at worst deeply dangerous; trying to define myself as a Latin Literature person in general at this stage is actually more difficult than it looks when the thesis and article are both on prose works. (All the more reason to get the Priapea article into shape, but I digress.) But I think one of the problems with Hinds' book in that respect is that it does so much talk in terms of poetry that it makes it hard to work out what to do with his argument in terms of prose. My brain is currently rather sluggishly swimming around the shallows here; part of me thinks that, if I had the opportunity to do some practical application of this onto poetry, I'd work out where it needed to go in order to make sense of it in prose (and indeed across the border).

That part of me thinks many things, however, and not all of them are realistic.