A Survey of Gay Literature, Volume One: From Homer Through Lord Byron

by Keith Hale (Editor)

Overview

A Survey of Gay Literature, Volume One is a collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from antiquity through Lord Byron. This book and its companion, Volume Two, are also available in a single-volume edition. Included in this volume are works by Homer, Solon, Sappho, the Old Testament, Anacreon, Theognis, Pindar, Plato, Xenophon, Callimachus, Meleager, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Petronius, Plutarch, Ovid, Aelian, Strato, Agathius, Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anna Seward, and Lord Byron.
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Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wixsite.com/watersgreenhouse

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855667141
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/09/2023
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.