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 ...

A Civilisation That Took Love Seriously In today’s hyper-digitized world of dating apps, seen-zones, and breadcrumbing, the ...

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 ...

The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem. Ancient Jews and Christians were ...

or love, or nature — they are, instead, the tired accusations made against these things by the awe-starved know-it-alls of the world. What cynics call clichés are, in fact, poetry’s ancient ...

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