In one of his poems Catullus describes his happy return to the family villa at Sirmio on Lake Garda near Verona.

His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius ( son of the orator and rival of Cicero ) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems, the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.

It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.

There survives no ancient biography of Catullus: his life has to be pieced together from scattered references to him in other ancient authors and from his poems.

There is no scholarly consensus on whether Catullus himself arranged the order of the poems.

* condolences: some poems of Catullus are solemn in nature.

All these poems describe the lifestyle of Catullus and his friends, who, despite Catullus's temporary political post in Bithynia, lived their lives withdrawn from politics.

Above all other qualities, Catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems.

Catullus and Callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods ( except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e. g. poems 63 and 64 ), focusing instead on small-scale personal themes.

Catullus twice used a meter that Sappho developed, called the Sapphic strophe in poems 11 and 51.

* The new musical TULLY ( In No Particular Order ), which appeared in the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, loosely adapts the poems of Catullus while retaining the non-linear structure of the published edition, exploring his relationships with both Clodia and Juventius, renamed Julie, and the timeless nature of memory and love.

In one of his wedding poems, Catullus ( fl.

Of the polymetric poems of Catullus, forty-three are hendecasyllabic.

Catullus also wrote masterful poems that attacked his enemies.

David Campbell has briefly summarized some of the most arresting qualities of Sappho's poetry: Clarity of language and simplicity of thought are everywhere evident in our fragments ; wit and rhetoric, so common in English love-poetry and not quite absent from Catullus ' love poems, are nowhere to be found.

One of Sappho's poems ( fragment 31 ) was famously translated by the 1st century BC Roman poet Catullus in his " Ille mi par esse deo videtur " (" He seems to me to be equal to a god ") ( Catullus 51 ).

Catullus was influenced by both archaic and Hellenistic Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the Neoteroi (" newer poets "), who spurned epic poetry, following the lead of Callimachus, and instead composed brief highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres.

Maecenas and Augustus also had villas at Tibur, and the poet Horace had a modest villa: he and Catullus and Statius all mention Tibur in their poems.

Catullus received a book of bad poems by " the worst poet of all time " as a joke from a friend.

Her life, immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and also, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, was characterized by perpetual scandal.

The poet Catullus wrote several love poems concerning a frequently unfaithful woman he called Lesbia, identified in the mid-second century AD by the writer Apuleius ( Apologia 10 ) as a " Clodia.

* English translations of Catullus ' " Lesbia " poems

The texts are based on Latin wedding poems by Catullus, as well as Greek poems by Sappho and a small part by Euripides.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

Poetic Memoirs is a collection of 128 poems Mulhern describes as " arranged in a biographical sequence ".

The next step in the creation of the underlying mythology was the Lay of Earendel, a work composed of several poems that describes the mariner Earendel and his voyages and how his ship is turned into a star.

One of the poems, Vespers – which describes young Christoper Robin saying his evening prayers – was said by Christopher Milne as " the one work that has brought me over the years more toe-curling, fist-clenching, lip-biting embarrassment than any other ".

Robert Bly, in the 1993 edited volume Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, describes it as " a staggering book, sensual, prophetic, affectionate, wild ," and as " the greatest single collection of poems I have ever read.

Among lyric poets, the most important figures are Anne Bradstreet, who wrote personal poems about her family and homelife ; pastor Edward Taylor, whose best poems, the Preparatory Meditations, were written to help him prepare for leading worship ; and Michael Wigglesworth, whose best-selling poem, The Day of Doom, describes the time of judgment.

Similar poems written by Shawqi were subsequently composed by Sombati and sung by Umm Kulthum, including " Woulida el Houda " (" The Prophet is Born "; 1949 ), in which she raised eyebrows of royalists by singing a verse that describes the Prophet Mohammad as " the Imam of Socialists ".

Of all of Keats's poems, " To Autumn ", with its catalog of concrete images, most closely describes a paradise as realized on earth while also focusing on archetypal symbols connected with the season.

In his preface to his collection, Meleager describes his arrangement of poems as if it were a head-band or garland of flowers woven together in a tour de force that made the word " Anthology " a synonym for a collection of literary works for future generations.

Baikuntha Mallik was Jatayu's Bengali teacher at Ethenium Institution when he was in the seventh grade. Lalmohan babu often describes him as a great poet who did not get the adulation he desrved. There is no presence of him in the story but in some stories we can see Jatayu reciting his poems.

The work, the most famous of Smith's poems, describes a man whose distressed thrashing in the sea causes onlookers to believe that he is waving to them.

James describes the relationship between Smith and the speaker in " Not Waving but Drowning " by saying, " her poems, if they were pills to cure Melancholy, did not work for.

The scholar David Havird describes the rest of Tate's publication history in poetry as follows: By 1937, when he published his first Selected Poems, Tate had written all of the shorter poems upon which his literary reputation came to rest.

Both his poetry and his prose have been described as " stubborn " and critical of society's corruption, and in one of his few surviving poems Wu describes himself as having a " defiant spirit.

He describes his poetry as the following: “ They ’ re called poems but in reality they ’ re lines given to me to hang on to .” He has written many poems, including " Baby Boom Che " and " Rant and Roll ".

Karen Painter describes the poems thus: " Rückert's 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological endeavor to cope with such loss.

The volume was never reprinted and contains poems that Rossetti himself describes by saying that some of them were " poor " and none of them were " exactly good ".

The Literary History of Canada describes Murdoch's poems as having " style and polish " and it cites the following stanza as representative:

Among the various and curious details of life with the Beats, Kashner describes several of Ginsberg's unfinished poems that he asks Kashner to complete.

Appears prominently in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi, which describes his birth, marriage, death, resurrection, and ascension to the throne of Gwynedd, and is also mentioned in the Welsh Triads and in various medieval poems.