Ode to Boy

<p><em>Ode to Boy: Same-Sex Affection in Verse from Antiquity Through the First World War</em> is a collection of poetry devoted to same-sex attraction. The volume includes works by Homer Solon Sappho Anacreon Theognis Pindar Callimachus Meleager Catullus Virgil Horace Ovid Strato Agathius Abu Nuwas Rumi Sa'di Hafiz Michelangelo Marlowe Shakespeare Richard Barnfield Katherine Philips Aphra Behn Anna Seward Lord Byron Whitman Bayard Taylor Samuel Butler Housman Renee Vivien Radclyffe Hall D.H. Lawrence H.D. Siegfried Sassoon Rupert Brooke T.E. Lawrence and Wilfred Owen.</p><p> </p><p>Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction including textbooks as well as contemporary fiction that is literary unusual and provocative.</p>