Masculine Beauty: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Poetry of Same-Sex Affection

This volume seeks to give readers and scholars a single source to consult when the aim is to read Whitman's homoerotic verse. It contains only those poems Whitman wrote exploring masculine beauty and/or same-sex affection. An abridged introduction by John Burroughs places the work in its historical context.Sometimes gay readers and scholars have occasion to seek out the homoerotic passages of Whit...