 | Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry Subjects: English Poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Homosexuality Male in literature; Erotic poetry English -- History and criticism; Erotic poetry American -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing--not a distinct and differentiated category within it--Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the twentieth century that emphasizes the homo-erotic themes in the works of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn. Woods's controlled and elegant study demonstrates that a critic who ignores the sexual orientation of a poet, particularly a love poet, risks overlooking the significance of the poetry itself. |
