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Ode to Boy: Same-Sex Affection in Verse from Antiquity Through the First World War 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. 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.

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Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.

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