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Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur (roughly: "The Admiration of Beautiful Youths and the Love of Friends in World Literature") is a seminal anthology of gay poetry published by German artist Elisar von Kupffer in 1900. It was the first such compilation in modern times, quoting works from Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Bible, the Arab world, Japan, Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan England, and 19th-century Germany. Von Kupffer translated many of the texts to German himself and also included some of his own poems. A similar modern anthology is The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse.