SEX AND SEXUALITY, 1640 - 1940
Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives

Part 5: Gay Literature from Anacreon to John Addington Symonds from the British Library, London

REEL 1

Anacreon, Bion, Moschus

Translations

1815

237.i.1

Atherton, John

The Life and Death of John Atherton

1641

G.11479

Anon

Satan’s Harvest Home: or the Present State of Whorecraft….

1749

1093.i.12

Anon

The Power of Mesmerism

1891

P.C. 13.g.25

Aristophanes

The Knights

1887

12205.n.25

Artus, Thomas

Les Hermaphrodites

1610

1473.aa.38

Barnfield, Richard

The Affectionate Shepherd

1594

C.143.a.15

REEL 2

Barnfield, Richard

Cynthia with Certaine Sonnets

1595

C.60.b.5

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

Dream Pedlary

1910

F.1137.a

Burton, Richard

The Arabian Nights – a plain and literal Translation (Terminal Essay)

1885

Cup.402.f.1

Butler, Samuel

Shakespeare’s Sonnets reconsidered

1927

X24/9213

REEL 3

Byron, Lord

Don Leon

1866

P.C.30.h.6

Crowne, John

The Married Beau

1694

644.g.51

Dana,
Richard Henry

Two Years before the Mast

1841

1201.k.10

Ovid

Art of Love

1935 X22/8117

Rocco, Antonio

L’Alcibiade Fanciullo a Scola

1652

P.C.23.a.12

Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes

Poems

1896

Cup.510.av.20

REEL 4

Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes

The Greek View of Life

1896

012202.g.3/2

Dryden, John

Don Sebastian, King of Portugal

1690

644.g.71

Etherege, George

The Man of Mode

1676

841.d.11 (7)

Firbank, Ronald

Valmouth

1919

NN.5908

Firbank, Ronald

The Princess Zoubaroff

1920

011779.ff.49

REEL 5

Firbank, Ronald

Santal

1921

12613.i.28

Gautier, Theophile

Mademoiselle de Maupin

1883

12513.l.14

REEL 6

Greene, Robert

Menaphon

1589

95.b.18 (5)

Hitchen, Robert Smythe

The Green Carnation

1894

W18/1179

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Marthe Histoire d’une fille

1876

12548.ppp.3

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Against the Grain

1922

X.989/23435

Ibbett, William J

A Greek Garland of Amorous Trifles

1925

Cup.510.ab.4

Jackson, William

Sodom and Onan

1776

11642.g.15

REEL 7

James, Henry

Roderick Hudson

1876

12705.ee.1

Percy, Jocelyn

A Correct Account of the Horrible Occurrence which took place at a public-house
in St James

1822

Cup.363.

Johnson, William

Ionica

1858

C.71.cc.10

Lee, Nathaniel

The Rival Queens

1677

11774.g.29

REEL 8

Lee, Nathaniel

Caesar Borgia

1680

644.h.54

Lee, Nathaniel

The Princess of Cleve

1689

644.h.63

Lee, Nathaniel

The Massacre of Paris

1690

644.h.64

Lee, Vernon

Ariadne in Mantua

1903

11779.ddd.23

Lee, Vernon

The Beautiful

1913

12199.b.1/74

Mackay, John Henry

Der Schwimmer

1901

012552.bbb.65

REEL 9

Marlowe, Christopher

Edward II

1896

X7/7984

Pater, Walter

Marius the Epicurean

1892

W23/1056

Rimbaud, Arthur

Une Saison en Enfer

1873 C.129.m.13

Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo)

Stories Toto told me

1897

Cup.406.g.10

REEL 10

Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo)

In his own Image

1901

012640.aa.44

Sade, Donatien-Alphonse Francois de

La Philosophie dans le Boudoir

1795

P.C.30.c.25 (1)

Solomon, Simeon

A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep

1871

12352.h.28

REEL 11

Southerne, Thomas

The Maid’s Last Prayer

1693

644.f.58

Stubbes, Philip

Anatomie of Abuses

1583

G.10369

Sturgis, Howard

Tim: A Story of Eton

1891

012632.h.32

Swinburne, A C

Poems and Ballads

1866

11657.aaa.57

Symonds, John Addington

Fragilia Labilia

1884

Cup.400.b.32

REEL 12

Symonds, John Addington

New and Old

1880

W51/2230

Symonds, John Adddington

Vagabunduli Libellus

1884

X6/2542

Symonds, John Addington

Walt Whitman, A Study

1893

W47/5832

Symonds, John Addington

In the Key of Blue

1893

W19/1309

REEL 13

Symonds, John Addington

Animi Figura

1882

2292.a.37

Symonds, John Addington

A Problem in Greek Ethics

1883

Cup.402.c.2

Symonds, John Addington

A Problem in Modern Ethics

1896

Cup.364.p.8

Tibullus

The works of Tibullus, containing his four books of love elegies

1720

1002.i.10

REEL 14

Verlaine, Paul Hombres

1903

Cup.1001.c.2

Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass

1856

11688.aaa.29

Wilde, Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1890

X900/986

Wilmot, John (Earl of Rochester)

A Satyr against Mankind

1675

839.m.22.(1)

Wilmot, John (Earl of Rochester)

Poems on Several Occasions with Valentinian, a Tragedy

1691

1485.tt.22

REEL 15

Winthrop, Theodore

Cecil Dreeme

1876

12704.k.33

Winthrop, Theodore

John Brent

1876

12704.k.32