The best-known work of love poetry from the ancient world is the Song of Songs, a collection of erotic poetry dating back to the last centuries before the Common Era, known to the modern reader as a ...

Ancient poets like Imru' al-Qais and Antarah ... and remains one of the Arab world’s most famous female poets. The love poem, including the udhri verse, was meanwhile dominated by male poets ...

The most conspicuous feature of this anthology of some 150 Sanskrit and 50 Prakrit love poems, How To Love in Sanskrit, is that it domesticates premodern poems into English in ways that offer ...