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The first few lines of the poem in Peniarth MS 54, a manuscript dating from c. 1480. The poem's theme, Dafydd's habitual failure in love, is a very common one in his work. As the novelist and scholar Gwyn Jones wrote: No lover in any language, and certainly no poet, has confessed to missing the mark more often than Dafydd ap Gwilym.
The theme of love as a playful, humorous game is developed though the flirtatious and lighthearted romance described. [30] Ovid's witty humor undermines the idea that the relationships with the women in the poems are anything lasting or that Ovid has any deep emotion attachment to the relationships. [30]
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.
Her favourite of her own poems is 'Flowers' from Serious Concerns. Her domestic love poem 'The Orange' became increasingly viral from 2018, leading to Faber & Faber releasing a line of accompanying merchandise for it, and publishing a new edition of her works in 2023, entitled The Orange and other poems.
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Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), among first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and seek patronage; Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist; Anne de Marquets (c. 1533–1588), French poet; Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer; Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the ...
The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...
The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...