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- Title
"There You Will See Your Page": Olive Custance, Alfred Douglas, and Lyrics of Sapphic Boyhood.
- Authors
Bristow, Joseph
- Abstract
The article offers information the most striking intersections between differing types of unconventional desires in English and French lyric poetry at the turn of the twentieth century. It mentions the forms of passion that involve women's sexual adventures in the guise of a Renaissance; and also mentions the serious contemplation of a handsome man and the pale fragility of a sexually inexperienced woman, blur customary distinctions between the sexes.
- Subjects
LYRIC poetry; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; RENAISSANCE pottery; CONTEMPLATION; FRAGILITY (Psychology)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2019, Vol 57, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2019.0012