Queer theory -- Paula Gunn Allen -- John Ashbery -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Hart Grane -- Countee Cullen -- Allen Ginsberg -- Thom Gunn -- A.E. Housman -- Charlotte Mew -- Frank O'Hara -- Adrienne Rich -- Arthur Rimbaud -- Sappho -- Siegfried Sassoon -- James Schuyler -- Gertrude Stein -- Paul Verlaine -- Alice Walker -- Walt Whitman -- Oscar Wilde.
Summary
Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential gay and lesbian poets such as John Ashbery, Hart Crane, Allen Ginsburg, Sappho, and Oscar Wilde.