A Survey of Gay Literature - Paperback

A Survey of Gay Literature is a single-volume collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from antiquity through the First World War. This book is also available as a two-volume set for readers who prefer more slender volumes or who are primarily interested in one half of the survey. 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, 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.

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.