1st Edition
Sexual Heretics Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850-1900
The years between 1850 and 1900 were the vintage years of a discreet homosexual culture in England. In this period, educational, personal and foreign influences all contributed to the establishment of a trend expressed in the works of authors such as John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and A.E. Housman, and in those of lesser writers, now largely forgotten. This book, first published in 1970, is an anthology of English prose and verse, either homosexual in tone or providing a vehicle for homosexual emotions, and in several examples even overtly and experimentally frank. The book includes an introduction by Brian Reade explaining the network of friendships and associations which underlay this development and tracing some of its origins.
1. Leigh Hunt on his schooldays 1850 2. Alfred Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam 1850 3. Frederick William Faber 'Half a Heart' 1856 4. William Cory 'Heraclitus' 1858 5. William Cory 'Preparation' 1858 6. William Cory 'Parting' 1858 7. John Addington Symonds 'What Cannot Be' 1861 8. Algernon Swinburne 'Hermaphroditus' 1863 9. Gerald Manley Hopkins 'The Beginning of the End' 1865 10. Digby Mackworth Dolben 'A Letter' 1866 11. Digby Mackworth Dolben 'Sonnet' 1866 12. Walter Pater 'Winckelmann' 1867 13. John Addington Symonds 'Eudiades' 1868 14. Hon. Roden Noel 'Ganymede' 1868 15. Simeon Solomon from A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep 1869 16. Lord Francis Hervey 'Song' 1873 17. Edward Carpenter 'The Peak of Terror' 1873 18. John Addington Symonds 'Midnight at Baiae' c. 1875 19. Oscar Wilde 'Wasted Days' 1877 20. Francis William Bourdillon 'The Legend of the Water Lilies' 1878 21. Gerard Manley Hopkins 'The Bugler's First Communion' 1879 22. 'Sigma' 'My Love Song' 1881 23. Rennell Rodd ‘If Any One Return’ 1881 24. Rennell Rodd ‘Requiescat’ 1881 25. John Addington Symonds ‘Stella Maris XLV’ 1881-2 26. Edward Cracroft Lefroy ‘The Flute of Daphnis’ 1883 27. Edward Cracroft Lefroy ‘A Palaestral Study’ 1883 28. Sir Richard Burton ‘Terminal Essay’ 1885 29. Walter Pater from Marius the Epicurean 1885 30. Mark André Raffalovich ‘Rose Leaves When the Rose is Dead’ 1886 31. Mark André Raffalovich ‘The World Well Lost IV’ 1886 32. Mark André Raffalovich ‘The World Well Lost XVIII’ 1886 33. Mark André Raffalovich ‘Lovelace’ 1886 34. Arthur Christopher Benson on Arthur Hamilton at Cambridge 1886 35. Charles Edward Sayle ‘Muscovy’ 1884-8 36. Charles Edward Sayle ‘Amor Redux’ 1888 37. Sir Henry Hall Caine from The Deemster 1887 38. A.G. Rensham ‘Jealousy’ 1888 39. Gerard Manley Hopkins 'Epithalamion’ 1888 40. Richard C. Jackson ‘Joy Standeth on the Threshold’ c. 1887-9 41. Charles Kains-Jackson ‘Sonnet on a Picture by Tuke’ 1889 42. Mark André Raffalovich ‘Put on that Languor’ 1889 43. Frederick William Rolfe ‘Ballade of Boys Bathing’ 1890 44. George Gillett ‘To WJ.M.’ 1890 45. S.S. Sale ‘Sonnet’ 1890 46. Anonymous Teleny 1890 47. Hon. Roden Noel ‘Comrade, my Comrade’ 1891 48. Herbert P. Horne ‘Non Delebo Propter Decem’ 1891 49. Charles Kains-Jackson ‘Antinous’ 1891 50. George Gillett ‘To Kalon’ 1891 51. John Addington Symonds from A Problem in Modern Ethics 1891 52. Howard Overing Sturgis from Tim 1891 53. John Gambril Nicholson ‘Of Boys’ Names’ 1892 54. John Gambril Nicholson ‘Sonnet IV. Held in Bondage’ 1892 55. Frederick William Rolfe and John Gambril Nicholson ‘St William of Norwich’ 1892 56. Lionel Johnson ‘The Destroyer of a Soul’ 1892 57. Francis William Bourdillon ‘Si vous croyez que je vais dire’ 1892 58. E. Bonney-Steyne ‘Daphnis’ 1892 59. Percy Osborn ‘Heartsease and Orchid’ 1892 60. ‘Saloninus’ ‘By the Aegean’ 1893 61. Theodore Wratislaw ‘To a Sicilian Boy’ 1893 62. James Morgan Brown ‘We Have Forgot’ 1893 63. Eric, Count Stenbock ‘Many are Dreams…’ 1893 64. John Gambril Nicholson ‘I Love him Wisely’ 1892-4 65. John Gambril Nicholson ‘Ah, would that I in Dreamland’ 1892-4 66. John Gambril Nicholson ‘You Wonder Why’ 1892-4 67. Walter Pater ‘The Age of Athletic Prizemen’ 1894 68. Charles Kain-Jackson ‘The New Chivalry’ 1894 69. Eric, Count Stenbock ‘Narcissus’ 1894 70. Edward Carpenter Homogenic Love 1894 71. Alan Stanley ‘August Blue’ 1894 72. Bertram Lawrence ‘A Summer Hour’ 1894 73. John Francis Bloxam ‘The Priest and the Acolyte’ 1894 74. Lord Alfred Douglas ‘Two Loves’ 1894 75. Lord Alfred Douglas ‘In Praise of Shame’ 1894 76. Oscar Wilde The Portrait of Mr. W.H. 1889-95 77. Lord Alfred Douglas ‘Rondeau’ 1895 78. Mark André Raffalovich ‘Tulip of the Twilight’ 1895 79. Frederick William Rolfe from ‘Stories Toto Told Me’ 1896 80. Percy Addleshaw ‘All Souls’ Night’ 1896 81. A.E. Housman ‘Look Not in my Eyes’ 1896 82. A.E. Housman ‘If Truth in Hearts that Perish’ 1896 83. A.E. Housman ‘Shot? so Quick, so Clean an Ending?’ 1896 84. George Ives ‘With Whom, then, should I Sleep?’ 1896 85. John Le Gay Brereton (the Younger) ‘Rouge et Noir’ 1896 86. Aleister Crowley ‘Dédicace’ 1898 87. Aleister Crowley ‘Go into the Highways’ 1898 88. E.A.W. Clarke from Jaspar Tristram 1899 89. Horatio Brown ‘Bored’ 1900
Biography
Brian Reade
