Ode to Boy Volume Two is a refreshingly readable collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the 19th Century through the war poets. Included are works by 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. Hale's introductions to the authors are to the point and sometimes witty, specifying why the author or work is included in the volume and sometimes providing a larger biographical scope.
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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
