Ode to Boy: an Anthology of Gay Literature, Volume Two From the Nineteenth Century Through the First World War |
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| Author:
| Hale, Keith |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5430-1729-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2017 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $13.99 |
Book Description:
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Ode to Boy, Vol. 2 is a collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the 19th Century through the war poets. Included are works by Lord Byron, Disraeli, Gogol, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Bayard Taylor, Ernst Haeckel, Samuel Butler, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Henry James, Stanley Lane-Poole, Wilde, Gide, Proust, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Housman, Cather, Stein, Maugham, Aleister Crowley, Thomas Mann, Renee Vivien, Forster, Lytton Strachey, Radclyffe Hall,...
More DescriptionOde to Boy, Vol. 2 is a collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the 19th Century through the war poets. Included are works by Lord Byron, Disraeli, Gogol, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Bayard Taylor, Ernst Haeckel, Samuel Butler, Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Henry James, Stanley Lane-Poole, Wilde, Gide, Proust, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Housman, Cather, Stein, Maugham, Aleister Crowley, Thomas Mann, Renee Vivien, Forster, Lytton Strachey, Radclyffe Hall, Hugh Walpole, D.H. Lawrence, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Lawrence of Arabia, and Wilfred Owen. Hale's introductions to the authors are to the point and sometimes witty, specifying why the author or work is included in the volume and sometimes providing a larger biographical scope.