Libel (poetry)
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Libel is a verse genre primarily of Renaissance literature, descended from the tradition of invective in classical Greek and Roman poetry. Libel is usually expressly political, and balder and coarser than satire. Libels were generally not published but circulated among friends and political partisans in manuscript.
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