Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry

by Gregory Woods and Gregory Wiids

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300047525
• ISBN13: 9780300047523
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"