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The pasquinades (satirical poems) glued to the Talking Statues of Rome. They still appear from time to time. The Key of Solomon; The Skibby Chronicle; La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published anonymously at the time, now considered likely to have been written by Francesco Colonna; The Voynich manuscript
The poems are notable for their use of obscene words and ideas in combination with refined and elegant diction. [6] In the past one theory was that the Priapeia were the work of a group of poets who met at the house of Maecenas, amusing themselves by writing tongue-in-cheek tributes to the garden Priapus. [7] (Maecenas was Horace’s patron.)
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"Tom o' Bedlam" is the title of an anonymous poem in the "mad song" genre, written in the voice of a homeless "Bedlamite". The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century. In How to Read and Why Harold Bloom called it "the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language." [1]