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Early periods
Many erotic poems have survived from Ancient Greece and
Rome, the authors including the Greeks Straton of
Sardis, Sappho of Lesbos (lyrics); and the Romans
Automedon (The Professional and Demetrius the
Fortunate), Philodemus (Charito), Marcus Argentarius,
Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Martial and
Juvenal and the anonymous Priapeia. Some later Latin
authors also wrote erotic verse, e.g. Joannes Secundus.
In the Renaissance period many poems were not written
for publication and merely circulated in manuscript
among a relatively limited readership. Such were the
Sonnets of William Shakespeare who also wrote the erotic
poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
Erotic Literature - Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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