In Not Paul, But Jesus Jeremy Bentham offers solid proof that the books of the Bible ascribed to Paul could not have been divinely inspired due to the numerous fallacies and contradictions contained within them. Indeed, argues Bentham, Paul’s works even contradict the teachings of Christ. It is likely the books ascribed to Paul, many of which are merely letters to early Christian churches, were added by the church because the doctrine of Paul allows the church to play a far larger role.

The Great Plague, which hit London in 1665 and killed an estimated 100,000 citizens, one-fourth of the city's population, was followed a year later by the Great Fire, which burned the City of London and destroyed approximately 70,000 of the city's 80,000 homes. Fortunately, the fire also killed many of the rats that were spreading the plague.

A collection of romantic poems Byron wrote for John Edleston, Lord Clare, Earl Delawarr, Lucas Chalandrutsanos, and other boys. The collection spans Byron's life. Some poems for Edleston, Clare, and Delawarr were among the earliest verse he wrote; the poems to Chalandrutsanos were his very last. Selected and introduced by Keith Hale.

What happens when someone who doesn’t speak English attempts to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook? THIS is what happens. "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.” – Mark Twain

Hafiz has been called “the master of the erotic ghazal,” and much of the sexuality in his work is homoerotic. Hafiz’ ghazals are infused with same-sex mysticism that startles many Western minds because of the expression of male-male love as not only approaching but actually reaching a state of divinity. Hafiz believes one can see an image of the creator in the face of one’s beloved. His religious fervor is matched by his intense carnal desires, and he sees no contradiction in the two.

Ode to Boy is a collection of same-sex attraction in literature. Included in this volume are works by Homer, Solon, Sappho, the Old Testament, Anacreon, Theognis, Pindar, Plato, Xenophon, Callimachus, Meleager, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Petronius, Plutarch, Ovid, Aelian, Strato, Agathius, Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and Anna Seward.

Ode to Boy, Vol. 2 is a collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the 19th Century through the war poets. Hale's introductions to the authors are to the point and sometimes witty, specifying why the author or work is included in the volume and sometimes providing a larger biographical scope.

Ode to Boy is a collection of poetry devoted to same-sex attraction from antiquity through the First World War.

Keith Hale examines the bowdlerization of Brooke in existing biographies and looks into the poet's self-proclaimed bisexual identity. He examines the same-sex relationships Brooke enjoyed with Michael Sadleir, Charles Lascelles, and Denham Russell-Smith and explores Brooke's sexuality within its historical context.

Rupert Brooke of Rugby, revised 2nd edition, contains biography and commentary as well as Brooke's poetry, prose, and photographs. The edition includes Keith Hale's complete Rupert Brooke: The Bisexual Brooke, Updated and Expanded Edition, Brooke's Collected Poems with introductions by Margaret Lavington and George Edward Woodberry, and Brooke's Letters from America with an introduction by Henry James.

A Survey of Gay Literature is a single-volume collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from antiquity through the First World War.

The first half of the anthology of gay literature in a slightly different configuration than our title Ode to Boy.

The second half of the gay literature anthology in a slightly different configuration than our title Ode to Boy.

Just as the Great Fire of London took place one year after the Great Plague broke out, in the 14th Century, Germany and Latvia were still burying their dead from the Black Death, or bubonic plague, when they were hit by a strange epidemic--often called Dancing Mania, St. John's Dance, or St. Vitus' Dance--that caused thousands of people to literally "dance" themselves to death.

The story of Jesus and the Beloved Disciple is a beautiful and intriguing love story, well worth being treated as serious literature and appearing between covers of its own. For this version of the story, editor Tobias Skinner has chosen to believe that it was Lazarus who first wrote this version of the gospel--Lazarus, who is so comfortable in his love relationship with Jesus that he can confidently refer to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved."

Owen writes of bullet-heads that “long to muzzle in the hearts of lads” and of “a boy’s murdered mouth” and “hearts made great by shot.” In doing so, the outrage of war intermingles with eroticism to produce a powerful emotion in the reader.

"There is a grainy taste I prefer to every / Idea of heaven: human friendship." At his best, Rumi expresses love for another man more profoundly and more poetically than any other writer except, perhaps, Shakespeare or Hafiz.

Many of the stories in On Love and Youth, the fifth chapter of Sa'di's Gulistan, involve love affairs between men and youths: masters with slaves, princes with youthful subjects, teachers with schoolboys, and other variations. In most cases, the context of the relationship suggests that the youth is an adolescent or young man. For decades, readers in the English-speaking world had no idea Sa'di's Gulistan contained such stories, for translators changed the references to boys. Not in this volume.

Sometimes gay readers and scholars have occasion to seek out the homoerotic passages of Whitman, whether to read for the pure pleasure of the experience or for scholarship. This has been problematic in the past because Leaves is a huge volume to read through and shorter editions of “selected” Whitman poems are generally more apt to omit his homoerotic material than to include it. This volume seeks to give readers a single source to consult when the aim is to read Whitman’s homoerotic verse.

Freshman composition instructors will not find a more affordable basic textbook for their cash-strapped students. This book focuses on total literacy, with emphasis given to reading comprehension of increasingly challenging texts. Includes short stories by Poe, de Maupassant, London, Mansfield, Chekhov, Bierce, Chopin, Joyce, Gibran, Cather, and Vonnegut, poetry by Dickinson, Housman, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, St. Vincent Millay, Frost, Barrett Browning, Byron, Poe, Whitman, and Shakespeare.

Includes short stories by Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Katherine Mansfield, Chekhov, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather; poetry by Dickinson, Housman, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Frost; and sections on writing personal narratives, brainstorming activities, suggestions for effective peer editing, logical fallacies, samples of MLA citations, a works cited exercise, a sample MLA-style paper, and fourteen rubrics and checklists.

Includes stories by Wilde, Joyce, Cather, and Vonnegut; selections from Kahlil Gibran; poetry from Browning, Blake, Poe, Housman, Whitman, and McCrae; and sections on writing personal narratives, brainstorming activities, effective peer editing, logical fallacies, MLA citations, a works cited exercise, an MLA-style paper, fourteen rubrics and checklists, and more.