Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
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Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
Fiction -- Bibliography; Paraphilias in literature -- Bibliography
_Erinna_—only one fragment left. Available in the Greek Anthology
and other miscellaneous collections of that type.
_Nossis_—Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology,
Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.
_Sappho_—The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available
in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of
California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also
published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most
bookstores.
_Juvenal_—Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe
Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50;
also number 997 in Everyman’s Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire.
_Martial_—His “Epigrams” contain various references to lesbians.
Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.
THE MIDDLE AGES:
_Ariosto, Ludovico_—Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.
_Labe, Louise_—Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New
Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.
_Shakespeare, William_—The first 27 of the “Sonnets” are generally
adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of
interest to collectors in this field.
THE ROMANTIC POETS—19th CENTURY:
_Coleridge, Samuel T._—Christabel. Long narrative poem of a curious
attachment between a guileless young girl and a female demon;
available in virtually every anthology of English literature.
_Rossetti, Christina_—Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem with
distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of English literature.
_Romani, Felice_—Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo
Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones. Many
translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but
most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the
emphasis.
_Baudelaire, Charles_—The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French
of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon)
N. Y., Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958. Many other
editions and translations available.
_Swinburne, Algernon Charles_—Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London,
Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series are
explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of space
limitation, only the major titles will be listed for those who want
to sift through anthologies; Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At
Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen
Bersabe, Erotion. The entire series of Poems and Ballads is
available in hcr no. 961, Everyman’s Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for
$1.95.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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