Gay Love Poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786704691 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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But above all, this is an anthology of outstanding poems that holds a special appeal to gay men but at the same time speaks to a broader audience.With translations of the essential classical and modem texts, this one-of-a-kind collection makes a convincing case for the central place of gay poetry in our literary culture.. E Cavafy.Gay Love Poetry addresses gay themes in the pastoral tradition, in urban settings, in the elegiac mode, and in celebrations of homosexual desire. He also offers selections by poets like Wordsworth, Tennyson, Dryden, and Andrew Marvell since these particular pieces, though not conceived of as gay love poetry, nonetheless enjoy a gay readership. R. Editor Neil Powell's superb collection includes verse by Martial, Virgil, Shakespeare, Drayton, Verlaine, Byron, Wilfred Owen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and many others. Ackerley, Francis King, and C. This wide-ranging and superbly entertaining anthology of poetry stretches from Catullus and Ovid through Marlowe and Michelangelo, on to Wait Whitman and Oscar Wilde, and finally to such modems as Thom Gunn, J
"Let men say what they will." This collection of poems of love, longing, sadness, rejection, and mourning for lost loves (those who have died, and those who have gone away) is a very fine, but uneven, expression of the range of thought and emotion which can encompass relations between male and male -- on the erotic and the psychological level. The editor, Neil Powell, has divided the poems into six groupings under the titles: Nature Boys -- Street Life -- Lads' Love -- As It Is -- Borderlines -- In Memoriam. Within each grouping, the poets and their poems are presented in chronologi. William Vaughn said A lovely read. This is a great book that spans the spectrum of gay love. There are some incredible things in here and reading a sonnet, I could not contain myself, I was laughing and blushing in the bookstore. Well worth getting as a gift to yourself or anyone who needs to hear in great words the things they feel so well.