Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry

by Gregory Woods

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Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing—not a distinct and differentiated category within it—Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the twentieth century that emphasizes the homo-erotic themes in the works of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn. Woods’s controlled and elegant study demonstrates that a critic who ignores the sexual orientation of a poet, particularly a love poet, risks show more overlooking the significance of the poetry itself. show less

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The author covers the homoerotic themes in poetry of Lawrence, Crane, Auden, Ginsberg and others in this fascinating exploration of gay poetry. The significance of sexual orientation is emphasized in a serious and thoughtful manner.

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