An edition of My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries (1998)

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An edition of My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries (1998)

My Dear Boy

Gay Love Letters through the Centuries

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Correspondence, Gay men's writings, Gay men, Love letters, Love-letters, Gays' writings, LGBTQ history

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My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries
February 1998, Leyland Pubns
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My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries
February 1998, Leyland Publications
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1998, Leyland Publications
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 11
Breath of my life: Emperor Marcus Aurelius & Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Page 23
Roses are my heart's desire: Flavius Philostratos & Various Boys
Page 26
For all time: Paulinus of Nola & Ausonius
Page 28
Joined delight: Bo Juyi & Yuan Zhen
Page 29
Best beloved brother: Saint Anselm & Gundulf & William
Page 33
Take up riper practices: Marbod of Rennes & a Young Lover
Page 37
This boy my heart caresses: Baudri of Bourgeuil & Various Lovers
Page 39
Beautiful boy, unparalleled boy: Hilary the Englishman & a Boy of Angers & an English Boy
Page 42
Wanton sport: A Spanish monk
Page 44
Platonic love: Marsilio Ficino & Giovanni Cavalcanti
Page 46
Only return my love: Desiderius Erasmus & Servatius
Page 49
Grand passions: Federico Gonzaga & Pietro Aretino
Page 54
Captive and slave confessed: Michelangelo & Tommaso Cavalieri & Febo di Poggio
Page 57
Full of anxious fear: Hubert Languet & Sir Philip Sidney
Page 61
Thy dear dad and husband: King James I & VI & George Villiers
Page 65
Heart trouser fly: Francisco Correa Netto & Manoel Viegas
Page 68
The floating world: Mashida Toyonoshin & Moriwaki Gonkuro
Page 71
I bring you my heart: A Buddhist priest & Okajima Uneme
Page 75
The earl and his beau: Charles Spencer & Edward Wilson
Page 81
Town and country: John, Lord Hervey & Stephen Fox
Page 87
Love at the outer limits: Johann Joachim Winckelmann & Reinhold von Berg
Page 93
I never saw such a boy: Thomas Gray & Charles-Victor de Bonstetten
Page 98
Friendship and philosophy: Johannes von Müller & Charles-Victor de Bonstetten
Page 102
Revolutionary love: Alexander Hamilton & John Laurens
Page 105
Dearest Impresario: William Beckford & Master Saunders
Page 109
Fair young bull: Heinrich von Kleist & Ernst von Pfuel
Page 114
The Cornelian: Lord Byron & John Edleston
Page 117
Best of blessings: Rev. John Church & Ned
Page 121
Writhing bedfellows: Thomas Withers & James Hammond
Page 126
A fairy tale: Hans Christian Andersen & the Hereditary Grand-Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Page 129
Pieces of God: Herman Melville & Nathaniel Hawthorne
Page 132
The love of comrades: Walt Whitman & Fred Vaughan & Lewis Brown & Peter Doyle
Page 135
Grand opera: Richard Wagner & King Ludwig II
Page 145
So like an angel: Brother Augustine & Samuel Hase
Page 149
Herring merchants: Edward Fitzgerald & Joseph Fletcher
Page 153
Fanny and Stella: Ernest Boulton, Frederick Park, Louis Hurt, John Fiske & Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton
Page 157
The summer of life: Sir Edmund Gosse & William Hamo Thornycroft
Page 163
To do a little good: Edward Carpenter & George Merrill
Page 169
Pathetic symphony: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Bob Davidov
Page 171
An ill-fated friendship: Oscar Wilde & Lord Alfred Douglas
Page 179
Tremendous intimacy: Henry James & Hendrik Andersen
Page 185
The last chord: F. Holland Day & Nardo
Page 192
The Venice letters: Frederick William Rolfe, Amadeo & Piero
Page 195
The beginning: Rupert Brooke & Denham Russell-Smith
Page 206
You have fixed my life: Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon
Page 210
Soul windows: Countee Cullen & Alain Leroy Locke
Page 214
Not by the mind alone: Hart Crane & Wilbur Underwood
Page 217
Rat and the Devil: F. O. Matthiessen & Russell Cheney
Page 221
Dear SIR!: Lawrence of Arabia & "Sir"
Page 225
My beautiful angel: Jean Cocteau & Jean Marais
Page 229
Just like home: J. R. Ackerley & Ideal Friends
Page 235
I'll be with you tonight: Ralph Hall & Montague Glover
Page 241
We're a funny pair: W. H. Auden & Chester Kallman
Page 245
Crossing bridges: Stanley Haggart & Harry Hay
Page 248
Reaching deep into the heart's core: Herbert Huncke & Noah
Page 250
Relax, man: Neal Cassady & Allen Ginsberg
Page 253
Eros and honesty: Pier Paolo Pasolini & Franco Farolfi
Page 258
The Promised Land: William Burroughs & Kiki
Page 263
My heart is breaking: Colin Spencer & John Tasker
Page 267
We'll change the world: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky
Page 273
Sources and Acknowledgments
Page 279
Index
Page 283

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OL8445690M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
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ISBN 13
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OCLC/WorldCat
37261097
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