The first full-length study to explore the idea of a 'gay epic' in American poetry.

Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit conce

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Münster (English Seminar),

Perhaps the cornerstone of the American poetic tradition, Whitman forged new ground with his masterwork, ;Leaves of Grass.

A literary biography of the 19th century gay American poet, originally published the year after Whitman died, by one of his most prominent early champions and e