Classics not in PG/GLBT
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- A Problem in Greek Ethics, John Addington Symonds. [Written in 1873, privately printed in ten copies in 1883; expanded and printed as an appendix to Havelock Ellis's Sexual Inversion, 1897, but immediately suppressed; surreptitiously reprinted in 1901, in two different `limited' editions of 100 numbered copies.] A copy is known to exist in the British Library in London, #10 of the 10 printed; it contains edits & additions written in by Symonds himself in pencil.
- At PG: etext:32022
- A Problem in Modern Ethics, John Addington Symonds. [Privately printed in a limited edition of fifty copies in 1891, surreptitiously reprinted in an edition limited to 100 copies in 1896.] Parts are quoted in Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (which also does not appear to be in PG).
- At PG: etext:32588
- The Great Mirror of Male Love , Ihara Saikaku. Japanese novelist who wrote this 1687 collection of short stories about love between samurai men & boys, monks & boys, and male actor-prostitutes in kabuki theatre. Professor Paul Gordon Schalow of Rutgers University produced a 1990 English translation, but that is not public domain.
Authors with no (GLBT) works at all
- Edward Carpenter. Some works are in PG, but his autobiography My Days and Dreams and his Toward Democracy (inspired by Walt Whitman's works) are missing. (Parts are available online at the Edward Carpenter website.)
- Toward Democracy on IA. Towards democracy proj_post_first_available
- My Days and Dreams on IA. My days and dreams, 2d ed. proj_post_first_available
- Constantine P. Cavafy. Greek Poet. His poems highlighting gay cultural identity, by nostalgic recreations of the Hellenic past, or by exploring the homosexual underworld of contemporary Alexandria, Egypt. No works on PG. Some online at Cavafy website.
- Arthur Rimbaud, French poet. At age 16, wrote A Season in Hell, inspired by his affair with his lover, poet Paul Verlaine. After that 14-month affair, he traveled extensively, eventually becoming a merchant trader in Ethopia, where he lived until his death at 37. Apparently never wrote any poetry after age 19. Nothing on PG.
- John Addington Symonds. (Several of his works of literary criticism, poetry, and translations are in PG. But his autobiography, and his 2 classic, seminal works on gay love are missing.) Bio: Pioneer advocate of gay rights. Wrote the first history of homosexuality in English; emphasized the contribution of gay men in numerous writings on literature & art. Wrote his sexual autobiography for posterity. (from Rictor Norton Ph.D., http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/greatga2.htm)
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. (1825-1895) Pioneering gay activist, devloped the "third sex" theory about a female psyche in a male body. The first self-proclaimed gay to condemn laws penalizing gay men. Also advocated rights of women & ethnic minorities. Most of his works are in German. There are translations into Italian, French, Spanish, and English, but all of these are probably too recent to be public domain.