Lavender Lit 101 - International LGB Literature up to 1923


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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 (6 hr 34 min)

Chapitres

A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes 20:40 Lu par Maryanka
Correspondence, by William Beckford 5:29 Lu par Mike Pelton
The Cornelian, by Lord Byron 3:13 Lu par Martin Geeson
The Near Enemy, by Natalie Clifford Barney 1:21 Lu par Eden Rea-Hedrick
Fragments from Igor Stravinsky, by Jean Cocteau, Trans by Rollo Myers 20:10 Lu par Ben Adams
E. Maxwell Snurge, by Noel Coward 7:44 Lu par zephyr2050
Hymen, by Hilda Doolittle 20:58 Lu par Kristin G.
Chapter 6, Howards End, by E. M. Forster 21:40 Lu par Mike Pelton
"Recollections of Oscar Wilde" by Andre Gide, trans. Percival Pollard 36:30 Lu par Ben Adams
Ode to Sappho, by Radclyffe Hall 4:55 Lu par Martin Geeson
Three Poems, by Langston Hughes 2:26 Lu par boodah
Brooksmith, by Henry James 47:22 Lu par Algy Pug
Prelude to 'Royal Highness', by Thomas Mann, trans A Cecil Curtis 7:12 Lu par Bellona Times
Hero and Leander, by Christopher Marlowe 52:12 Lu par Bellona Times
Faith, by W. Somerset Maugham 34:53 Lu par zephyr2050
Keep the Home Fires Burning!, by Ivor Novello, lyrics by Mrs. Ford 3:21 Lu par Bellona Times
Anthem For Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen 1:25 Lu par David Wales
Overture excerpt, from Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust, trans by C.K. Scott-Moncr… 9:20 Lu par Bellona Times
Sleeper of the Valley, by Arthur Rimbaud, trans by Ludwig Lewisohn 1:37 Lu par Bellona Times
Full Moon, by Vita Sackville-West 1:08 Lu par Eden Rea-Hedrick
A Letter Home, by Sigfried Sassoon 3:08 Lu par Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Mrs. Whitehead, by Gertrude Stein 4:58 Lu par Bellona Times
Preface to Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey 5:31 Lu par David Wales
Birds in the Night, by Paul Verlaine - trans G. Hall 6:08 Lu par Bellona Times
The Closing Door, by Angelina Weld Grimké 30:33 Lu par Bellona Times
Invocation, by Renée Vivien 3:05 Lu par Bellona Times
I Sing The Body Electric!, by Walt Whitman 17:51 Lu par Bellona Times
The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde 16:42 Lu par Algy Pug
Monday or Tuesday, by Virginia Woolf 3:18 Lu par Eden Rea-Hedrick

Critiques

Wide-ranging, variegated compilation


(3.5 stars)

There are close to thirty different works here, with many expected names, some new to me, and some unexpected entries- I was surprised to see the author (and preface) of Eminent Victorians here. The strength of this collection is also, in a way, its weakness. It is so wide-ranging, one feels a bit lost. Gertrude Stein jostles with Christopher Marlowe; romantic poetry with rather dry nonfiction. And the entries are not, generally, important or famous works- as one would expect to see in a "101" level text- and some are hardly "works" at all, but descriptions of famous authors by their "friends", and then translated by third parties- rather far removed from the work of the authors themselves. With such a wide net of names, genres, and even lengths of entries, the listener wants a guide to explain things, but the collection is not curated. Entries are in no logical order, but scattered about. Still, it is informative and, at times, quite moving. The idea is fine, but the execution flawed. Really, though, only one minute for Rimbaud?