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CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
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Poem 68a, like 65, is a short epistle, apparently introducing the poem which follows, even though the name of the addressee, Mallius, does not seem to match that of 68b. In the epistle Catullus again mentions the death of his brother, and excuses himself from writing a learned poem since he is in Verona and does not have his library with him.
Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina (the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: approximately sixty short poems in varying meters, called polymetra, nine longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams in elegiac couplets. Each of these ...
The poem was adopted by the greeting-card industry, led by graphic designer and calligrapher Elizabeth Lucas. Joseph ascribed the popularity of the poem to Lucas. "To her business acumen and energy I owe a hospitable following in California and later throughout northern America, more social, as I said, than literary.
Drum-Taps); The Patriotic Poems I (Poems of War) 1861, September 24 Beautiful Women " Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young," Leaves of Grass (Book XX. By the Roadside) Beginners " How they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)" Leaves of Grass (Book I. Inscriptions) Beginning My Studies
Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), English novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer; Lola Ridge (1873–1941), anarchist poet and editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications; Ethel Rolt-Wheeler (1869–1958), English poet, author and journalist; Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), English writer of romantic, devotional and ...
Johnston's poetry was considered by some as of no lasting value, but in 1991 her poem written in dialect "The Last Sark" was published in An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets. In 1998 Gustav Klaus's biography "Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-class Poetry in Victorian Scotland" was published. [ 4 ]