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  2. Catullus 68 - Wikipedia

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    Poem 68 is a complex elegy written by Catullus, who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic.This poem addresses common themes of Catullus' poetry such as friendship, poetic activity, love and betrayal, and grief for his brother.

  3. Friendship - Wikipedia

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    Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. [1] It is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an "acquaintance" or an "association", such as a ...

  4. Album amicorum - Wikipedia

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    The album amicorum ('album of friends', friendship book) was an early form of the poetry book, the autograph book and the modern friendship book. It emerged during the Reformation period , during which it was popular to collect autographs from noted reformers.

  5. Sonnet 30 - Wikipedia

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    The poem opens up with the speaker remembering his past losses. The narrator grieves his failures and shortcomings while also focusing on the subject of lost friends and lost lovers. [ 16 ] Within the words of the sonnet, the narrator uses legal and financial language. [ 17 ]

  6. Poems on Several Occasions (Lady Mary Chudleigh) - Wikipedia

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    Poems on Several Occasions was a poetry collection, published by the intellectual feminist, Lady Mary Chudleigh in 1703. [1] The primary subject of the collection is the joys of friendship between women when that friendship is based on shared morals and shared intellectual pursuits; although, there are also poems on various other topics.

  7. Autograph book - Wikipedia

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    1888 autograph book. An autograph book (also known as an autograph album, a memory album or friendship album) [1] is a book for collecting the autographs of others. Traditionally they were exchanged among friends, colleagues, and classmates to fill with poems, drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse, and other mementos.

  8. Katherine Philips - Wikipedia

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    Philips's translations and poems consider questions of political authority and express her royalist beliefs. Her work also considers the nature and value of friendship between women. There has been speculation over whether her work could be described as lesbian. Certainly her representations of female friendship are intense, even passionate.

  9. Poetry of Catullus - Wikipedia

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    invectives: some of these often rude and sometimes downright obscene poems are targeted at friends-turned-traitors (e.g., Poem 16) and other lovers of Lesbia, but many well-known poets, politicians (e.g. Julius Caesar) and orators, including Cicero, are thrashed as well. However, many of these poems are humorous and craftily veil the sting of ...