Lavender Lit 101 - International LGB Literature up to 1923
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29 chapters · 6 h 35 min · Multilingual
Read by Maryanka, Mike Pelton, Martin Geeson, Eden Rea-Hedrick, Ben Adams, zephyr2050 and others
Literary Fiction · Poetry · Miscellaneous
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International LGB Literature up to 1923
This is a collection of 30 American and European gay, lesbian, & bisexual writers from the 16th thru early 20th Centuries. Heavy on poetry -- including a rousing WWI anthem from 1915 -- with a few short stories and essays. Non-English works should be read where possible in their original language. - Summary by BellonaTimes
Chapters
1 A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes 21 min 2 Correspondence, by William Beckford 5 min 3 The Cornelian, by Lord Byron 3 min 4 The Near Enemy, by Natalie Clifford Barney 1 min 5 Fragments from Igor Stravinsky, by Jean Cocteau, Trans by Rollo Myers 20 min 6 E. Maxwell Snurge, by Noel Coward 8 min 7 Hymen, by Hilda Doolittle 21 min 8 Chapter 6, Howards End, by E. M. Forster 22 min 9 "Recollections of Oscar Wilde" by Andre Gide, trans. Percival Pollard 36 min 10 Ode to Sappho, by Radclyffe Hall 5 min 11 Three Poems, by Langston Hughes 2 min 12 Brooksmith, by Henry James 47 min 13 Prelude to 'Royal Highness', by Thomas Mann, trans A Cecil Curtis 7 min 14 Hero and Leander, by Christopher Marlowe 52 min 15 Faith, by W. Somerset Maugham 35 min 16 Keep the Home Fires Burning!, by Ivor Novello, lyrics by Mrs. Ford 3 min 17 Anthem For Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen 1 min 18 Overture excerpt, from Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust, trans by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff 9 min 19 Sleeper of the Valley, by Arthur Rimbaud, trans by Ludwig Lewisohn 2 min 20 Full Moon, by Vita Sackville-West 1 min 21 A Letter Home, by Sigfried Sassoon 3 min 22 Mrs. Whitehead, by Gertrude Stein 5 min 23 Preface to Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey 6 min 24 Birds in the Night, by Paul Verlaine - trans G. Hall 6 min 25 The Closing Door, by Angelina Weld Grimké 31 min 26 Invocation, by Renée Vivien 3 min 27 I Sing The Body Electric!, by Walt Whitman 18 min 28 The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde 17 min 29 Monday or Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf 3 min