An electrifying anthology of queer poetry through the ages edited by Dr Simon Avery, specialist in queer history and culture.
Hand in Hand with Love is a celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, featuring an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen and many more.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited by Dr Simon Avery, a specialist in queer history and culture at the University of Westminster.
From Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this luminous anthology champions and redefines the spectrum of queer poetry – from visionary writers whose only safe space to express their intimate thoughts was on the page, to the pioneering poets who paved the way for decades to come. Together, these dynamic voices offer a vivid archive of queer identity to be celebrated, discovered and treasured.
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An electrifying anthology of queer poetry through the ages, edited by Dr Simon Avery, specialist in queer history and culture.
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The Garden of the Nymphs Sappho |
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The Stricken Flower Sappho |
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Long at our leisure yesterday Catullus |
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To Aurelius---Hands off the Boy! Catullus |
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RENAISSANCE & EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
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My True Love Hath my Heart |
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Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love |
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Cherry-lipt Adonis in his snowie shape |
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17 | (1) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes |
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Not marble nor the gilded monuments |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
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22 | (2) |
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Batter my heart, three-person'd God |
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24 | (1) |
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To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (3) |
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To a Friend who sent me some |
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To the Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby |
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33 | (2) |
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A Young Girl Seen in Church Eliza |
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35 | (2) |
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To George Sand: A Desire Elizabeth |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (4) |
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From I Sing the Body Electric |
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When I Heard at the Close of Day |
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We Two Boys Together Clinging |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (10) |
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71 | (2) |
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76 | (1) |
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Her breast is fit for pearls |
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From Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) Algernon Swinburne |
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83 | (2) |
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89 | (1) |
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In the Deep Cave of the Heart |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (3) |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (3) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (5) |
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107 | (3) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (5) |
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119 | (1) |
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The laws of God, the laws of man |
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120 | (1) |
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Oh who is that young sinner |
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121 | (2) |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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On Entering into a Closer Friendship |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (3) |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (2) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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I can't feel the sunshine |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (1) |
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Oh, think not I am faithful |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (4) |
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165 | (2) |
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The Man with Night Sweats |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (9) |
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178 | (3) |
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| Index of poets |
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181 | (4) |
| Index of titles |
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185 | (4) |
| Index of first lines |
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189 | (4) |
| Permissions Acknowledgements |
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Simon Avery is Reader in English at the University of Westminster where he teaches courses on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, gender and sexuality. His publications include Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present (with Kate M. Graham), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Brownings: Victorian Literary Lives, Mary Coleridge: Selected Poems and Thomas Hardy: A Readers Guide.
