The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse Edited by Stephen Coote
12mo. pp. 410. index. hardcover boards. dw. (near fine - smudge to top of text block, some light discolouration to spine boards). [London]: Allen Lane, [1983].
First UK Edition.
Scare.
ISBN-10: 0713915730 / ISBN-13: 9780713915730
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The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse includes poems by and about homosexuals from Sappho, Theocritus, Horace, Virgil, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, as well as Goethe, Byron, Verlaine, Whitman, Swinburne, Symonds, Auden and Isherwood and many others.
"It ranges in time and place from classical Athens to contemporary New York. It ranges in tone and content from celebration to satire. While the collection can, I hope, be read for pleasure, I would like to think of it also as a record, a history of the different ways in which homosexual people have been seen and have seen themselves. Only if we know something about the past is there a chance we can do something about the future. To that extent, I would like to think of the voices collected here as those of encouragement."
— Stephen Coote