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Plays and Poetry of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: "This is a collection of the beautiful, curious and amusing in both verse and prose often taken from the world's finest writers - whose subject is any kind of comradeship, friendship or fellow-feeling which seems deepened by the mysterious quality of Eros." "The reader will find here both the grave 'amor' of Cicero and the disreputable lay-about amours of Petronius. The Homeric heroes, the passionate purity of the Socratic ideal - and of Shakespeare and Montaigne - take their place side by side with the graceful flirtations of the Muse Puerilis, the bitter jibes of Catullus and Juvenal and the sensuousness of Persians and Moors. The monasteries of the Middle Ages are seen in relation to pious affections and to the poetry of the Court of Charlemagne until, in the modern sections, the material proves too rich to be represented as fully as one might wish, for here there must be passages from Huysmas, Gide and Proust, from George and Mann, from Whitman and Hart Crane and from our own contemporaries." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: According to the Encyclopedia of literature in Canada, Patrick Anderson was a British writer (1915-1979); Alistair Sutherland was his partner. read more thanks to Rictor Norton for this link Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"They have a peculiar custom in regard to love affairs, for they win the objects of their love, not by persuasion, by by abduction. The lover tells the friends of the boy three or four days beforehand that he is going to make the abduction; but for the friends to conceal the boy, or not to let him go forth by the appointed road, would be a most disgraceful thing, a confession, as it were, that the boy is unworthy to obtain such a lover. When they meet, if the abductor is the boy's equal, or superior in rank or other respects, the friends pursue him and lay hold of him, though only in a very gentle way, so as to satisfy the custom; after that they cheefully turn the boy over to him to lead away. If, however, the abductor is unworthy, they take the boy away from him. The pursuit is at an end when the abductor takes the boy to his 'Andreion' (youths' mess or house). They regard as a worthy object of love, not the boy who is exceptionally handsome, but the boy who is exceptionally manly and decorous." p 43 - 44; Strabo, Geography, tr H I Jones Secondhand booksellers |
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