_Nossis_—Various variant poems and fragments. Greek Anthology, Putnam, 1915-26 (5 vol.). Also in similar collections.
_Sappho_—The classic poet of lesbianism. Over 50 editions available in hard covers. New translation by Mary Barnard, University of California Press, 1958, qpb $1.25. An attractive edition is also published for $2.50 by the Pater Pauper Press, on display in most bookstores.
_Juvenal_—Satires. Many editions in hardcover and qpb. (Rolfe Humphries trans. and ed. the Indiana University Press, 1958, $1.50; also number 997 in Everyman’s Library, $1.85.) The Sixth Satire.
_Martial_—His “Epigrams” contain various references to lesbians. Cambridge University Press, 1924, $2.75.
_Ariosto, Ludovico_—Orlando Furioso. London, Bell, 1907.
_Labe, Louise_—Love Sonnets (trans. by Frederick Prokosch), New Directions, 1947, $2.50, still in print.
_Shakespeare, William_—The first 27 of the “Sonnets” are generally adjudged to be male-homosexual in emphasis and are therefore of interest to collectors in this field.
_Coleridge, Samuel T._—Christabel. Long narrative poem of a curious attachment between a guileless young girl and a female demon; available in virtually every anthology of English literature.
_Rossetti, Christina_—Goblin Market. Lovely and fantastic poem with distinctly variant overtones. See anthologies of English literature.
_Romani, Felice_—Norma. Italian libretto for the opera by Vincenzo Bellini, generally adjudged to be subtly lesbian in overtones. Many translations are available in collections of opera libretti, but most English translations edit out the variant content or alter the emphasis.
_Baudelaire, Charles_—The Flowers of Evil, (trans. from the French of Les Fleurs du Mal by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon) N. Y., Harper, 1936, also New Directions, pbr, 1958. Many other editions and translations available.
_Swinburne, Algernon Charles_—Poems and Ballads, 2 vols, London, Chatto & Windus, 1893, 1895. Many of the poems in this series are explicitly or implicitly lesbian. In the interests of space limitation, only the major titles will be listed for those who want to sift through anthologies; Anactoria, Fragoletta, Sapphics, At Eleusis, Sonnet with a copy of Mlle. de Maupin, The Masque of Queen Bersabe, Erotion. The entire series of Poems and Ballads is available in hcr no. 961, Everyman’s Library, Dutton, 1940, 50, for $1.95.