Gay Love Poetry

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Book Reviews of Gay Love Poetry

Book Review: "Let men say what they will."
Summary: 5 Stars

The poets include Theocritus, Virgil, Sir Philip
Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare,
Walt Whitman, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde,
C.P. Cavafy, Wilfred Owen, Solon, Alcaeus, Catullus,
Martial, Strato of Sardis, Michelangelo, Lord Byron,
Homer, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson among the famous --
and a convocation of the lesser known, but no less
feeling and thoughtful trekkers of the quest.
To my own taste, some of the poems seem uneven
in quality -- and the tone of many of them seems
"artificial" -- stagey -- though some of them overcome
that "staged-effect" quality to become quite humane,
telling, and heart-felt.
The poems of the classical authors are often presented
with the translations by famous authors themselves,
such as John Dryden as translator of Virgil's pastorals,
Solon translated by J.A. Symonds. Each of the six
sections may contain poems by previous poets in other
sections, so the representations are fuller in
giving voice to many facets of the same poets.
All in all, this is an excellent collection, especially
for the novice reader or even the more experienced
reader and liver of male-love-related themes.
"Catching up with each other halfway to where we're
going / any day is a likelihood, and an unexpected
extra." -- Peter Daniels. from: "Liverpool St."
-- Robert Kilgore.

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