Poetry
- Sappho -- Greek poetess from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women
- Ovid -- Roman erotic poet
- Catullus -- Roman erotic poet
- Cavafy Constantine P. --20th century Greek poet. His sensual poems are filled with the lyricism and emotion of same-sex love; inspired by recollection and remembrance.
- Sextus Propertius -- Roman poet
- Petrarch -- Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry.
- Bai Juyi-- romantic poet of the Tang dynasty
- King Solomon--author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester -- British 17th century libertine
- Hồ Xuân Hương -- 18th-19th century Vietnamese poetess
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“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)