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  2. Christian poetry - Wikipedia

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    In a forward to his poems, which many scholars believe was addressed to Southwell's cousin, William Shakespeare, the priest-poet wrote, "Poets by abusing their talent, and making the follies and feignings of love the customary subject of their base endeavors, have so discredited this faculty that a poet, a lover, and a liar, are by many ...

  3. Ovid - Wikipedia

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    Book 3 has 14 poems focusing on Ovid's life in Tomis. The opening poem describes his book's arrival in Rome to find Ovid's works banned. Poems 10, 12, and 13 focus on the seasons spent in Tomis, 9 on the origins of the place, and 2, 3, and 11 his emotional distress and longing for home. The final poem is again an apology for his work.

  4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Wikipedia

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    The collection comprises twenty love poems, followed by a final poem titled The Song of Despair. Except for the final poem, the individual poems in the collection are untitled. Although the poems draw inspiration from Neruda's real-life love experiences as a young man, the book is not solely dedicated to a single lover.

  5. Amores (Ovid) - Wikipedia

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    The Roman poet Ovid, born in the city.. Amores (Latin: Amōrēs, lit. ' The Loves ') [1] is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets.It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account, later edited it down into the three-book edition that survives today.

  6. Iain Crichton Smith - Wikipedia

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    Iain Crichton Smith, OBE (Gaelic: Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn; 1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow, but moved to the Isle of Lewis at the age of two, where he and his two brothers were brought up by their widowed mother in the small crofting town of Bayble, which also produced Derick Thomson.

  7. Layla and Majnun - Wikipedia

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    It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet. This type of love is known as "virgin love" because the lovers never marry or consummate their passion. Other famous virgin love stories set in Arabia are the stories of Qays and Lubna, Kuthair and Azza, Marwa and Al Majnoun Al Faransi, and Antara and Abla.

  8. W. H. Auden - Wikipedia

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    Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈ w ɪ s t ən ˈ h juː ˈ ɔː d ən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.

  9. Poetry of Maya Angelou - Wikipedia

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    For example, all the poems in the first section of Diiie focus on love. [36] In Southern Women Writers, Carol A. Neubauer states that they "describe the whole gamut of love, from the first moment of passionate discovery to the first suspicion of painful loss". [37] Over half the poems in Shaker focus on love (specifically its inevitable loss ...