The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day

by Fone, Byrne R. S.

• ISBN13: 9780231096706
• ISBN10: 0231096704
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PRESS

Summary

In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety of styles and genres, gay men have increasingly begun to articulate their sexual identities. At the same time, gay writers and scholars have begun in earnest the search for a literary history long denied by the refusal to recognize homosexual love as an integral part of Western literature. Yet to date, no single volume has brought together the full range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that portray love between men.From the Epic of Gilgameshto the poems of Allen Ginsberg and gay literature of the 1980s and '90s, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literaturedraws together hundreds of texts from Western literary history that describe experiences of love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex among men. While other anthologies have focused primarily on poetry, drama, or fiction, this volume is the first to include a full range of genres. Spanning more than two millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the late twentieth century, this anthology brings together the best-known texts of gay male writing such as the poetry of Martial and Walt Whitman, and excerpts from E. M. Forster's Maurice, as well as from lesser known works such as nineteenth-century English homoerotic poetry and selections from two early American novels of homosexual love -- Joseph and His Friend and Imre.In The Columbia Anthologyreaders become acquainted with the early bonds of male companionship found in Homer's writings on Zeus and Ganymede, and with the homoerotic poetry of Catullus and Juvenal. From Shakespeare's Sonnetsto the philosophy of de Sade, to the political writings of Edmund White, this masterful anthology traces a multifaceted tradition.Arranged chronologically, sections are supplemented by illuminating introductory essays; many individual pieces include background commentary on the writer and the work.As a landmark to the enduring spirit of gay writers, this collection is an essential addition to the library of anyone searching for the historical foundations of gay identities. With its excellent annotations and suggestions for further reading, The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literaturewill also serve as an invaluable resource to students and scholars in need of a guide to a massive body of literature that has long been hidden, ignored, or misrepresented.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxvii
Acknowledgments	xxxiii
Bibliographical Notes	xxxv
Part One: Inventing Eros	1	(88)
Literature of the Ancient World from the Earliest Texts to the Beginning of Premodern Times
The Earliest Texts	3	(8)
Mesopotamia	3	(6)
From the Epic of Gilgamesh (3rd millennium B.C.E.)	3	(1)
English version
N. K. Sandars
[The Coming of Enkidu]	3	(3)
[The Death of Enkidu]	6	(1)
[The Lament of Gilgamesh for Enkidu]	7	(2)
The Old Testament	9	(2)
The Friendship of David and Jonathan
Samuel 17:55-58 and 18:1-4	9	(1)
David's Lament for Jonathan
Samuel 1:17-27	10	(1)
Eros in Arcadia: Greek Literature	11	(50)
Legendary Lovers	15	(10)
Zeus and Ganymede	16	(1)
Homer	16	(1)
From the Iliad, Book 20 (8th cent. B.C.E.)	16	(1)
E. V. Rieu
Achilles and Patroclus	16	(1)
Homer	16	(1)
From the Iliad, Books 18 and 23
[Achilles' Lament and the Funeral of Patroclus]	17	(3)
[Achilles' Dream]	20	(2)
F. V. Rieu
Harmodius and Aristogeiton	22	(1)
Thucydides (471-400 C.E.)	22	(1)
[The History of Harmodius and Aristogeiton]	22	(1)
Benjamin Jowett
Orestes and Pylades	23	(1)
Lucian (c. 120-80 C.E.)	23	(1)
From Amores 47	23	(1)
W. J. Baylis
The Sacred Band of Thebes	24	(1)
Plutarch (46-120 C.E.)	24	(1)
From The Life of Pelopidas	24	(1)
Edward Carpenter
Theorizing Desire: Inventing Paiderastia	25	(12)
Plato (427-347 B.C.E.)	25	(1)
From Symposium (c. 385 B.C.E.)	25	(1)
Walter Hamilton
[The Speech of Phaedrus]	26	(1)
[The Speech of Fausanias]	27	(4)
[The Speech of Aristophanes]	31	(2)
[The Dialogue of Socrates and Diotima]	33	(4)
Musa Paidika: Greek Homoerotic Poetry	37	(8)
Solon (c. 638-558 B.C.E.)	37	(1)
[The Love of Boys]	37	(1)
John Addington Symonds
Anacreon of Teos (570-485 B.C.E.)	37	(1)
Fragment 16	37	(1)
Eugene O' Connor
Elegy	37	(1)
Peter Bing
Rip Cohen
Fragment 360	38	(1)
Alfred Corn
Theognis (570-490 B.C.E.)	38	(1)
From the ``Second Book'' of Theognis	38	(1)
Peter Bing
Rip Cohen
Pindar (518-438 B.C.E.)	38	(1)
[To Theoxenos]	38
John Addington Symonds
Euripedes (480-406 B.C.E.)	30	(9)
Fragment 652	39	(1)
John Addington Symonds
Theocritus (310-245 B.C.E.)	39	(1)
Idyll 29	39	(1)
W. Douglas P. Hill
From the Creek Anthology (1st cent. B.C.E.-4th cent. C.E.)	40	(5)
Daryl Hine
Byrne Fone
Affairs of the Heart: Romance and Debate	45	(16)
Philostratus (2nd-3rd cent. C.E.)	46	(1)
From the Epistles
Alien Rogers Benner
Francis Forbes
Letter 19: To a Boy Who Is a Prostitute	46	(1)
Letter 57: To a Boy	46	(1)
Xenophon of Ephesus (3rd cent. C.E.)	47	(1)
From the Ephesiaca
Moses Hadas
[Hippothoos and Hyperanthes]	47	(2)
(Pseudo) Lucian (Early 4th cent. C.E.)	49	(1)
From Affairs of the Heart
M. D. McLeod
[The Two Types of Love]	50
Nonnus (c. 450 C.E.)	33	(20)
From Dionysiaca
W. H. D. Rouse
[Dionysus and Ampelos]	53	(3)
[Carpos and Calamos]	56	(5)
Rome: Love Poems and Satire	61	(28)
Latin Literature from the First Century B.C.E. to the Second Century C.K
Introduction: Roman Homosexuality and Latin Literature	61	(3)
Catullus (c. 84-54 B.C.E.)	64	(580)
To Aurelius and Furius (no. 16)	644
Eugene O'Connor
To Aurelius (no. 21)	64	(1)
Eugene O'Connor
To Juventius (no. 99)	65	(1)
Frank O. Copley
Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.)	65	(1)
Eclogue 2: The Lament of Corydon for His Faithless Alexis	66	(2)
Byrne Fone
Ovid (43 B.C.E.-C.E. 18)	68	(1)
From Metamorphoses
[Zeus and Ganymede]	69	(1)
[Apollo and Hyacinthus]	69	(1)
Rolfe Humphries
Petronius (c. C.E. 66)	70	(1)
From the Satyricon	71	(10)
Translation Attributed to Oscar Wilde
Martial (40-140 C.E.)	81	(1)
Epigrams	81	(2)
Juvenal (55-140 C.E.)	83	(1)
From Satire 2	84	(5)
Peter Careen
Part Two: Inventing Sodom	89	(36)
The European Middle Ages from the Third to the Thirteenth Century of the Common Era
Inventing Sodom: Introduction	91	(4)
Creating Sodomites-Making Friends	91	(4)
Inventing Sodom: Scripture and Law from the Sodom Story to 1200 C.E.	95	(8)
The Old Testament	95	(4)
The Story of Sodom
Genesis 18-19	95	(4)
The Holiness Code (7th cent. B.C.E.?)
Leviticus 18:22	99	(1)
Leviticus 20:13	99	(1)
The New Testament	99	(1)
From the Epistles of St. Paul	99	(1)
Romans 1:26-2-7	99	(1)
Corinthians 6:9-10	100	(1)
Policing Sodomites: Religious Commentary and Civil Law	100	(1)
Philo Judaeus (c. 13 B.C.E.-C.E. 45)	100	(1)
From De Abrahamo (1st cent. C.E.)	100	(1)
F. H. Colson
Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-215 C.E.)	100	(1)
The Theodosian Code (342 C.E.)	100	(1)
The Code of Justinian	100	(1)
Novella 77 (538 C.E.)	100	(1)
Novella 141 (544 C.E.)	101	(1)
England	101	(2)
Henry 1: Council of London (c. 1102)	101	(1)
Edward 1: Britton 1.10 (c. 1290)	102	(1)
God Made Our Natures Full of Love	103	(22)
Romantic Friendship Between Men in Literature from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century of the Common Era	103	(7)
Paulinus of Nola (353-431)	103	(1)
[70 Ausonius]	103	(1)
Jack Lindsay
Hrabanus Maurus (776-856)	103	(1)
[To Grimold, Abbot of St. Gall]	104	(1)
Helen Waddell
Walafrid Strabo (809-849)	104	(1)
[Dearest, you come suddenly and suddenly you depart]	104	(1)
John Boswell
[When the splendor of the moon]	104	(1)
Helen Waddell
Marbod of Rennes (1035-1123)	105	(1)
[The Unyielding Youth]	105	(1)
John Boswell
Baudri of Bourgueil (1046-1130)	106	(1)
[Your appearance is pleasing]	106	(1)
Thomas Stehling
Hilary (c. 1125)	106	(1)
[To an English Boy]	106	(1)
John Boswell]
Ganymede (12th-13th cent.)	107	(1)
Hebe and Ganymede	107	(3)
John Boswell
From The Leiden Manuscript (12th cent.)	110	(1)
[The wise rejoice with Ganymede]	110	(1)
John Boswell
The Story of Lancelot and Galehaut	111	(11)
From Lancelot-Grail
Part II	111	(4)
Carleton W. Carroll
Part III	115	(7)
Samuel N. Rosenberg
The Story of Amis and Amile (13th cent.)	122	(3)
Walter Pater
Part Three: Platonic Dialogues	125	(70)
European and English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century
Platonic Dialogues: Introduction	127	(4)
Friendship, Homoeroticism, and the Renaissance	127	(4)
The Italian Renaissance: Amor Socraticus	131	(26)
Marsilio Ficino (1443-1499)	131	(1)
From Commentarium in Platonis Convivium (1469)	131	(3)
[Commentary on Plato's Symposium]
Sears Jayne
From ``Letters to Giovanni Cavalcanti Written Between 1474 and 1492''	134	(2)
Translated by Members of the Language Department of the School of Economics and Science, London
Filippo Scarlatti (c. 1442-c. 1487)	136	(1)
[Lanza 51]	136	(1)
James J. Wilhelm
Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494)	136	(1)
Greek Epigrams	136	(2)
James J. Wilhelm
From Favola di Orfeo (1480)	138	(1)
Elizabeth Basset Welles
Cecco Nuccoli (14th cent.)	139	(1)
Three Poems	139	(1)
Jill Claretta Robbins
Marino Ceccoli (14th cent.)	140	(1)
Two Poems	140	(1)
Jill Claretta Robbins
Pacifico Massimi (15th cent.)	140	(1)
``Advice to Paulinus'' (Book I, 9)	141	(1)
``A Love Song for Marcus'' (Book II, 10)	141	(1)
``On Happiness'' (Book V, 8)	142	(1)
James J. Wilhelm
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)	143	(1)
Early Poems (possibly for Gherardo Perini)	144	(1)
James M. Saslow
Letter to Tommaso de'Cavalieri	145	(1)
John Addington Symonds
Poems to Tommaso de'Cavalieri (1532-c. 1542)	146	(2)
James M. Saslow
Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565)	148	(1)
James J. Wilhelm
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)	148	(1)
Two Letters to Luca Scalabrino (1576)	148	(2)
Jill Claretta Robbins
Roman Pasquinades (16th cent.)	150	(1)
James J. Wilhelm
Antonio Rocco (17th cent.)	151	(1)
From L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola (1652)	151	(2)
[Alcibiades in School]
Michael Taylor
From L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola	153	(4)
Jill Claretta Robbins
Affectionate Shepherds: English Homoerotic Literature (1500-1685)	157	(38)
Henry VIII: The Law of 25 (1533)	158
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)	138	(20)
From The Shepheardes Calendar (1579)	158	(2)
``Glosse'' on Hobbinol by E.K.	160	(1)
From The Faerie Queene (1590-1596)	161	(2)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)	163	(1)
From Piers Gaveston (1593)	163	(5)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)	168	(1)
From Dido, Queen of Carthage (1593)	168	(1)
From Edward II (1594)	169	(12)
From Hero and Leander (1598)	181	(3)
Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)	184
From The Affectionate Shephearde (1594)	183	(4)
From Cynthia, with Certaine Sonnets (1595)	187	(2)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	189	(1)
From Sonnets (1609)	190	(5)
Part Four: Reinventing Sodomites	195
Homophobia and Resistance (1623-1860)
Introduction: Satirizing Sodomites	197	(17)
English Homophobia (1628-1810)	199	(15)
Sir Edward Coke	199	(1)
From the Third Part of the institutes of the Laws of England (1628)	199	(1)
The Law of Buggery, or Sodomy	199	(1)
George Lesly (c. 1650)	199	(1)
From Fire and Brimstone, Or, the Destruction of Sodom (1675)	199	(2)
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)	201	(1)
From Roderick Random (1748)	201	(6)
John Cleland	207	(1)
From Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)	207
Ned Ward	200	(9)
From A Complete and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster.... (1709)	209	(2)
The Punishment of Sodomites	211	(1)
From The Trying and Pillorying of the Vere Street Club (1810)	211	(3)
Natural Passions: Resisting Homophobia	214	(24)
English Literature (1785-1833)	214	(24)
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)	214	(1)
From On Paederdsty (1785-1816)	214	(5)
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)	219	(1)
``The Cornelian'' (1807)	219	(10)
``To Thyrza'' (1811)	229
``One Struggle More, and I am Free'' (1811-12)	222	(1)
``If sometimes in the haunts of men'' (1812)	223	(1)
``On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year'' (1824)	224
``Love and Death'' (1824))	223	(3)
``Last Words on Greece'' (1824)	226	(1)
Anonymous	226	(1)
From Don Lean (1833)	226	(12)
Children of Sodom: Eighteenth-Century French Literature	238	(6)
Donatien Alphonse Francois Sade, Comte de Sade (Marquis de Sade) (1740-1814)	238	(1)
``Manners'' (from La Philosophic dans le boudoir, 1795)	238	(2)
Austryn Wainhouse
Richard Seaver
Anonymous	240	(1)
Sodom (from Les Enfans de Sodome a l'Assemblee Nationale, 1798)	240	(4)
Gina Fisch-Freedman
Uranian Renaissance: German Literature (1820-1869)	244
Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848)	244	(1)
From Der Eros (1821)	244	(6)
[Eros; Or, On Love]
Carl Skoggaard
Heinrich Hoessli (1784-1864)	250	(1)
From Eros: Die Mannerliebe der Griechen (1836)	250	(6)
[The Manly Love of the Greeks]
Carl Skoggaard
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895)	256	(1)
From Forschungen uber das Ratsel der mannmannlichen Liebe (1864-1880)	256	(4)
[Researches into the Riddle of Love Between Men]
Michael A. Lombardi-Nash
K. M. Kertbeny [K. M. Benkert)	260	(1)
``Homosexuality'' (1869)	260	(3)
Michael Lombardi-Nash
Part Five: Heirs of Eros	263	(2)
English Literature (1850-1969)
Romantic Friendship and Homosexuality in Nineteenth- Century English Poetry (1850-1900)	265	(37)
Inventing a Language	265	(37)
The Law (1861): 24 and 23 Victoria, C. 100	268	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)	268
From In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850)	260	(14)
William Johnson Cory (1823-1892)	274
From Ionica (1858)
``Desiderato''	273	(3)
``Deteriora''	276	(1)
``Parting''	276	(1)
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)	277	(1)
``What Cannot Be'' (1861)	278	(1)
From ``Eudiades'' (1868)	279	(6)
From ``Love and Death: A Symphony'' (c. 1871)	285	(1)
``Midnight at Baiae'' (1875)	286	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)	288	(1)
``Epithalamion'' (1888)	289	(1)
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)	290	(1)
From Towards Democracy (1881-1902)
``Through the Long Night''	290	(1)
``To a Stranger''	291	(1)
``Summer Heat''	291	(1)
Edward Cracroft Lefroy (1855-1891)	291	(1)
``A Palaestral Study''	292	(1)
``An Idler Listening to Socrates Discussing Philosophy with His Boy-Friends''	292	(1)
Marc Andre Raffalovich (1864-1934)	293	(1)
From In Fancy Dress (1886)
``Rose Leaves When the Rose Is Dead''	293	(1)
``The World Well Lost IV''	294	(1)
``The World Well Lost XVIII''	294	(1)
From It Is Thyself (1889)
``Sonnet CXX''	294	(1)
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)	295	(1)
``Two Loves'' (1894)	295	(2)
George Ives (1867-1950)	297	(1)
From A Book of Chains (1897)
``With Whom, then, should I Sleep?''	297	(1)
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)	298	(1)
From White Stains (1898)
``Dedicace''	298	(1)
``A Ballad of Passive Paederasty''	299	(1)
``Go into the Highways and Hedges, And Compel Them to Come In''	300	(1)
``Rondels''	300	(2)
Inventing Themselves: Imagining ``Homosexuals'' in English Fiction and Theory (1890-1895)	302
John Addington Symonds	302	(1)
From ``A Problem in Modern Ethics'' (1891)	303	(5)
Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)	308	(1)
From ``Homogenic Love'' (1894)	309	(5)
Teleny (1893)	314	(8)
Attributed to Oscar Wilde and Others
John Francis Bloxam (1873-1928)	322	(1)
From ``Tile Priest and the Acolyte'' (1894)	322	(6)
Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds	328
From Sexual Inversion (1897)	128
Symbolic Sodomite: Society, Oscar Wilde, and the Law	33?	(345)
The Law: The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885	335	(1)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)	335	(1)
``Wasted Days'' (1877)	335	(1)
From Eleutheria
``Helas!'' (1881)	336	(1)
From Rosa Mystica
``Vita Nuova''	336	(1)
Letters from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas (1893-1895)	337	(2)
A Defense of Uranian Love (from the Transcripts of the Second Trial)	339	(2)
[DC Profundis]	341	(4)
Athletic Love: English Literature (1896-1969)	345	(54)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)	346	(1)
From A Shropshire Lad (1896)
``Look not in my eyes'' (XV)	347	(1)
``If truth in hearts that perish'' (XXXIII)	347	(1)
``Shot? So quick'' (XLIV)	348	(1)
From Last Poems (1922)
``The laws of God'' (XII)	348	(1)
From More Poems (1936, posthumous)
``Shake hands, we never shall he friends'' (XXX)	349	(1)
``Because I liked you better'' (XXXI)	349	(1)
From Additional Poems (included in Collected Poems, 1940)
``He would not stay for me'' (VII)	350	(1)
``Oil who is that young sinner'' (XVIII)	350	(1)
E. M. Forster (1879-1970)	350	(1)
From Maurice (1913)	350	(13)
From Forster's ``Terminal Note'' to Maurice (1960)	363	(1)
Wilfrid Owen (1893-1918)	364	(1)
``To Eros''	364	(1)
``Music'' (1916-17)	365	(1)
``Anthem for a Doomed Youth''	365	(1)
``To My Friend (With an Identity Disc)''	366	(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)	366	(1)
Prologue to Women in Love (1921)	366	(13)
J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967)	379	(1)
From My Father and Myself (1968)	379	(7)
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)	386	(1)
From Christopher and His Kind (1980)	386	(3)
Stephen Spender (1909-1995)	389	(1)
``Abrupt and charming mover''	389	(1)
``To T.A.R.H.''	390	(1)
Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960)	391
From Songs of Mankind (1930)
``Song of My Soul''	301	(1)
From The Heavenly Cupid (1934)
``Transfiguration''	302	(91)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)	393	(1)
``Legend'' (1931)	394
``Song IX [Funeral Blues]'' (1936)	95	(301)
Three Posthumous Poems (1964-1967)
``I. Glad''	396	(1)
``II. Aubade''	397	(1)
``III. Minnelied''	397	(2)
Part Six: Modern Love	399	(124)
European Writers from 1870
Inventing Homosexuals: European Writing (1870-1969)	401	(1)
Les Monstres Sacres: France (1870-1945)	402	(38)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)	403	(1)
From Les Stupra
``Our Assholes Are Different''	403	(1)
[``Nos fesses ne sont pas les leurs'' (1873-73)]
Paul Schmidt
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)	404	(1)
``Sonnet to the Asshole''	404	(1)
[``Le sonnet du trou du cul'' (1872-73)]
Alan Stone
From Hombres (1891)
Alan Stone
``Balanide II''	404	(1)
``Milie e tre''	405	(2)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)	407	(1)
From A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-1927)
From Sodome et Gomorrhe I (1921)	407	(4)
C. K. Scott Monerieff
Terence Kilmartin
Andre Gide (1869-1951)	411	(1)
From Corydon (1907; 1924)	412	(9)
Richard Howard
From the Journals (1889-1949)	421	(1)
Justin O'Brien
Rene Crevel (1900-1935)	422	(1)
``Nighttime'' (1924?)	423	(1)
Michael Taylor
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)	423	(1)
From Le Livre blanc (1928)	424	(2)
Margaret Crosland
Jean Genet (1910-1986)	426	(1)
The Man Condemned to Death (1942)	426	(8)
Le Condamne a Mort]
David Fisher
Guy Wernham
From Our Lady of the Flowers (1941-42; 1943)	434	(6)
[Notre-Dame des Fleurs]
Bernard Frechtman
Vaterlandslosen: Germany (1899-1939)	440
Elisar von Kupffer (1872-1942)	441	(1)
From ``The Ethical-Political Significance of Lieblingminne'' (1899)	441	(3)
Hubert Kennedy
``Gotamo''	444	(1)
``Into the Future!'' (1903)	444	(5)
Hubert Kennedy
John Henry Mackay (1864-1933)	449	(1)
Selections
Hubert Kennedy
``The Nameless Love'' (1905)	449	(1)
``Tomorrow''	449
The Nameless Love: A Creed (1906)	430	(2)
Benedict Fliedlander (1866-1908)	432	(1)
From ``Memoir for the Friends and Contributors of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in the Name of the Secession of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee'' (1907)	432	(5)
Hubert Kennedy
Erotic Revolutionaries: Russian Literature (1836-1922)	437	(32)
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)	457	(1)
``Imitation of the Arabic'' (1835)	458
``On the Statue of a Player at Svaika'' (1836)	438	(20)
Michael Green
Nikolay Klyuev (1887-1937)	458
``The Fourth Rome'' (1922)	438	(22)
Simon Karlinsky
Sergei Esenin (1895-1925)	460	(1)
[Yesterday's rain...] (1916)	460	(1)
From Prayers for the Dead (1918)	461	(1)
[Esenin's Suicide Note] (1925)	461	(1)
Simon Karlinsky
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (1872-1936)	462	(1)
From Alexandrian Songs (1897; 1906)	462	(4)
Michael Green
From Nets (1908)	466	(1)
Simon Karlinsky
``Ah, those lips, kissed by so many''	466	(1)
``At the Party''	467	(1)
From Clay Doves (c. 1915)	468	(1)
Simon Karlinsky
``Nine delightful birthmarks''	468	(1)
Eros in Egypt: Alexandrian Songs	469	(3)
Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933)	469
Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
``At the Cafe Door'' (1915)	460	(9)
``One Night'' (1915)	469	(1)
``When They Come Alive'' (1916)	470	(1)
``In the Street'' (1916)	470	(1)
``Passing Through'' (1917)	470	(1)
``Comes to Rest'' (1919)	470	(1)
``Their Beginning'' (1921)	471	(1)
``In Despair'' (1923)	471	(1)
Southern Dawn: Italian Literature in the Twentieth Century	472	(3)
Sandro Penna (1906-1977)	472	(1)
Seven Poems	472	(3)
John McRae
Amor Oscuro: Spanish Literature	475	(11)
Luis Cernuda (1902-1963)	476	(1)
Nine Poems
Rick Lipinski
From The Young Sailor and Other Poems
``I'll Tell You How You Were Born''	476	(1)
``The Shadow''	477	(1)
From The Chimera's Wasteland (1956-1962)
``For Two Voices''	478	(1)
``That Which Is Enough for Love''	478
From Poems for a Body
``The Lover Digresses''	470	(10)
Four Poems from Where Oblivion Dwells (1932-33)	480	(2)
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)	482	(1)
From Sonetos del amor oscuro (1935-36)
David William Foster
``Night of Sleepless Love''	483	(1)
``Sonnet of Sweet Weeping''	483	(1)
``The Poet Asks His Love to Write to Him''	484	(1)
``The Poet Speaks with Love by Telephone''	484	(1)
``The Poet Asks His Love About the Enchanted City of Cuenca''	484	(1)
Untitled (``All secret voice of dark love!'']	484	(1)
``The Poet Speaks the Truth''	485	(1)
Latin American and Cuban Literature	486	(37)
Paradiso	456	(67)
Brazil
Adolfo Caminha (1867-1897)	487	(1)
From O Bom-Crioulo (1895)	487	(14)
Arthur Hughes
Colombia
Porfirio Barba-Jacob (1883-1942)	501	(1)
From Song of an Impossible Blue
Jeff Bingham
Juan Antonio Serna Servin
``Song of the Fleeting Day''	502	(2)
Mexico
Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950)	504	(1)
Two Poems
Fanny Arango-Ramos
William Keeth
``They and I''	504	(1)
``Nocturnal Sea''	505	(1)
Argentina
Eduardo Gudino Keifer (1935--)	506	(1)
From A Sinner's Guidebook (1972)	506	(5)
[Guia de pecadores]
Ronald Christ
Gregory Kolovakos
Cuba
Julian del Casal (1863-1893)	511	(1)
El amante de las torturas (1893)	511	(3)
[The torture lover]
David William Foster
Emilio Ballagas (1908-1954)	514	(1)
Two Poems
Fanny Arango-Ramos
William Keeth
``Noeturne and Elegy''	514	(2)
``Of Another Fashion''	516	(1)
Jose Lezama Lima (1910-1976)	517	(1)
From Paradiso (1966)	517	(6)
Gregory Rabassa
Part Seven: Masculine Landscapes	523	(144)
American Literature 1840 to 1933
``Serene Friendship Land''	525	(86)
American Homoerotic Texts (1840-1908)	525	(86)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)	526	(1)
``Sympathy'' (1839)	526	(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)	528	(1)
``Friendship'' (1841)	528	(1)
From ``Friendship'' (1841)	528	(3)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)	531	(1)
``Fierce Wrestler''	532	(1)
From Notebook (``albot Wilson'')	533	(2)
Leaves of Grass (1855)
From [Song of Myself] (1855)	535	(15)
Notebooks: ``Adhesiveness''	550	(1)
From Notebook (c. 1855-56)
Leaves of Grass (1856)
``Organic Equality'': From a letter from Whitman to Emerson (August 1856)	550	(1)
From ``Poem of the Road'' (1856)	551	(1)
Notebooks: ``Live-Oak with Moss'' (1859)	552	(6)
Leaves of Grass (1860)	558	(1)
From ``Proto-Leaf''	558	(1)
From Calamus	559	(5)
Leaves of Grass (1866)	564	(1)
From Drum-Taps	564	(2)
Leaves of Grass (1867)	566	(1)
Calamus 5: [Come, I will make the continent indissoluble]	566	(1)
From ``Democratic Vistas'' (1870)	567	(1)
From Preface to Leaves of Grass (1876)	567	(1)
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)	568	(1)
From ``Hylas'' (1850)	568	(2)
From Poems of the Orient (1855)
``A Paean to the Dawn''	570	(1)
``To a Persian Boy in the Bazaar at Smyrna''	571	(1)
From The Poets journal (1862)
``On the Headland''	572	(1)
``Love Returned''	573	(1)
Correspondence Between Taylor and Walt Whitman	574	(1)
From Joseph and His Friend (1870)	575	(9)
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)	584	(1)
Correspondence Between Stoddard and Walt Whitman	585	(1)
From South Sea Idyls (1873)	586	(6)
``Professor X'' [James Mills Peirce]	592	(1)
From ``A letter to Havelock Ellis'' (1897)	593	(1)
Xavier Mayne [Forward Prime-Stevenson] (1868-1942)	594	(1)
From Imre (1906)	595	(7)
From The Intersexes (1908)	602	(9)
Camp Sites: Armies of Androgynes	611	(56)
American Literature (1918-1933)	611	(56)
Earl Lind (``Ralph Werther''/``Jennie June'') (b. 1874)	613	(1)
From autobiography of an Androgyne (1918)	614	(8)
From The Female Impersonators (1922)	622
Robert McAlmon (1896-1956)	620	(10)
``Miss Knight'' (1925)	630	(1)
Bruce Nugent (b. 1906)	630	(1)
``Smoke, Lilies and Jade'' (1926)	630	(19)
Robert Scully	649	(1)
From A Scarlet Pansy (1933)	649
Charles Henri Ford (b. 1913) and Parker Tyler (1907-1974)	633	(20)
From The Young and the Evil (1933)	653	(14)
Part Eight: Deconstructing ``Manhood''	667	(60)
American Literature 1916 to 1969
Out of the Shadow World	660	(67)
Inventing and Enforcing Modern Homophobia (1933-1969)	660	(16)
Lighting the Shadow World	676	(51)
From Men and Boys: An Anthology of Poetry (1924)	676	(1)
``Clement Andrews''	677	(1)
``Morn's Recompense''	677	(1)
Sydney Wilmer	677	(1)
``The Mess Boy''	677	(1)
Giles dc Gillies	677	(1)
``De Puerorum osculis''	677	(1)
Donald Malloch (1877-1938)	678	(1)
``Manly Love''	678	(1)
Hart Crane (1899-1932)	678	(1)
``C33'' (1916)	679	(1)
``Modern Craft'' (1917)	679	(1)
``Episode of Hands'' (1920)	680	(1)
Voyages (1921-1926)	680	(4)
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)	684	(2)
From Early Poems (1939-1946)
``I Am a Most Fleshly Man''	686	(1)
From The Opening of the Field (1960)
``This Place Rumord To have Been Sodom''	687	(1)
From Bending the Bow (1968)
The Torso (Passages 18)	688	(2)
Gore Vidal (b. 1925)	690	(1)
``Pages from an Abandoned Journal'' (1956)	691	(8)
``Donald Webster Gory'' [Edward Sagarin (1913-1986)]	699	(1)
From The Homosexual in America (1951)	700	(4)
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)	704	(1)
``Lebanon'' (1953)	704	(1)
``Homosexuality'' (1954)	705	(1)
Alien Ginsberg (1926-1997)	706	(1)
``A Supermarket in California'' (1955)	707	(1)
``Chances 'R' '' (1966)	708	(1)
``Please Master'' (1968)	708	(7)
John Wieners (b. 1934)	715
``A Poem for Cocksuckers'' (1958)	710	(1)
William Burroughs (1914-1997)	710	(1)
From Naked Lunch (1959)	710	(5)
John Rechy (b. 1934)	715	(1)
From City of Night (1963)	715	(6)
John Giorno (b. 1936)	721	(1)
``Pornographic Poem'' (1967)	721	(2)
James Purdy (b. 1923)	723	(1)
``Faint Honey''	723	(1)
``Do You Wonder Why I Am Sleepy''	724	(1)
``From rivers, and from the earth itself''	724	(3)
Part Nine: Out There	727	(92)
American Literature from 1969
Becoming Gay	729	(90)
Out There: Gay American Literature	729	(3)
Questions	732	(1)
Ralph Pomeroy (b. 1926)	732	(1)
``Gay Love and the Movies'' (1969)	732	(1)
Answers	733	(10)
William Barber (b. 1947)	733	(1)
``The Gay Poet'' (1971)	733	(1)
``Explanation''	734	(1)
Perry Brass (b. 1947)	735	(1)
``Only Silly faggots Know'' (1973)	735	(1)
``I Have This Vision of Madness'' (1972)	735	(2)
Harold Norse (b. 1916)	737	(1)
``I'm Not a Man'' (1972)	737	(1)
Edward Field (b. 1924)	738	(1)
``Street Instructions at the Crotch'' (1972)	738	(1)
Kenneth Pitchford (b. 1931)	739	(1)
``Surgery'' (1973)	739	(1)
Joseph Cady (b. 1938)	740	(1)
``After Hearing Heterosexual Poets in October 1974: What It Seems Like To Write a Male Homosexual Love Poem Now'' (1974)	740	(1)
Joe Brainard (b. 1942)	741	(1)
``I Remember'' (1975)	741	(2)
Celebrations	743	(32)
Adrian Brooks (b. 1947)	743	(1)
I Here is the queen...] (1975?)	743	(1)
Michael Rumaker (b. 1932)	744	(1)
``The Fairies Are Dancing All Over the World'' (1975)	744	(2)
Alfred Corn (b. 1943)	746	(1)
``Billie's Blues'' (1977)	746	(1)
``To Hermes''	747	(1)
John Iozia	748	(1)
``Fag Art'' (1976)	748	(1)
``Last Night at the Flamingo'' (1978)	748	(2)
Andrew Holleran (b. 1943?)	750	(1)
From Dancer from the Dance (1978)	750	(23)
Melvin Dixon (1950-1992)	773	(1)
``Getting Your Rocks Off'' (1978)	773	(1)
Walter Holland (b. 1953)	774	(1)
``Christopher Street 1979''	774	(1)
Politics	775	(20)
Walta Borawski (1947-1994)	775	(1)
``Power of One'' (1980?)	775	(1)
``Some of Us Wear Pink Triangles'' (1980)	775	(2)
Edmund White (b. 1940)	777	(1)
``The Political Vocabulary of Homosexuality'' (1980)	777	(8)
Carl Morse (b. 1934)	785	(1)
``Dream of the Artfairy'' (1982)	785	(2)
Jim Everhard (b. 1946)	787	(1)
``Curing Homosexuality'' (1982)	787	(6)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)	793	(1)
``Guilt, Desire and Love'' (1983?)	793	(2)
Grieving	795	(9)
Thom Gunn (b. 1929)	795	(1)
``Lament'' (1984)	795	(2)
``Terminal'' (1986)	797	(1)
``The Missing'' (1987)	798	(1)
``In The Post Office'' (1991)	798	(3)
Walter Holland (b. 1953)	801	(1)
``A Journal of the Plague Years''	801	(1)
Michael Lassell (b. 1947)	801	(1)
``I low to Watch Your Brother Die'' (1985)	801	(3)
Daryl Hine (b. 1936)	804	(1)
``Apart from You''	804	(1)
Surviving	804	(15)
Essex Hemphill (b. 1957)	804	(1)
``Better Days'' (1985)	804
``Cordon Negro'' (1985)	801)	(806)
Walta Borawski (1947-1994)	806	(1)
``Talking to Jim'' (1988)	806	(1)
Craig Reynolds (b. 1952)	807	(1)
``The worst of it''	807	(1)
Salih Michael Fisher (b. 1956)	808	(1)
``Hometown'' (1988)	808
D. Rubin Green	800	(1)
``Names and sorrows'' (1989)	800	(11)
Donald Woods (1957-1992)	811	(1)
``Prescription'' (1989)	811	(2)
``Waiting''	813	(3)
Assotto Saint (1957-1994)	816	(1)
``Heart & Soul'' (1990)	816	(1)
Perry Brass (b. 1947)	817	(1)
``There Isn't Any Death'' (1990)	817	(2)
Copyright Acknowledgments	819