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Woods, Gregory was born on January 4, 1953 in Cairo. Son of Frederick and Charmion Woods.
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Discusses the themes of the male body, war, and homosexual love in poetry, and analyzes the poetry of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn.
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El presente libro se ocupa de modo extraordinariamente amplio de la literatura gay masculina a través de culturas y lenguas desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. De carácter deliberadamente polémico, esta Historia de la Literatura gay se ocupa también de cómo tratan el amor entre hombres los escritores que no son ho
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Layered with rich insight, this powerful collection of prose provides an unidealistic stance on homosexuality that evokes the many landscapes of sensuality and desire.
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This is a collection of homo-erotic verse on both personal and broader social themes. In three parts, the book opens with formal poems about key figures in past gay culture; the second consists of 12-line poems progressing from desire, through consummation, to loss and the renewal of desire. The third part contains mainly longer, narrative poems in a variety of forms, exploring themes of masculinity and power, love and hatred, youth and ageing. The book integrates the author's celebrations of male physicality into a context of repression and violence.
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This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a tradition, it traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. “Woods’ own artistry is evident throughout this elegant and startling book. . . . These finely honed gay readings of selected Western (and some Eastern) literary texts richly reward the careful attention they demand. . . . Though grounded in the particulars of gay male identity, this masterpiece of literary (and social) criticism calls across the divides of sex and sexual orientation.”—Kirkus Reviews (a starred review) “An encyclopedic mapping of the intersection between male homosexuality and belles lettres . . . that is good reading, in part because Woods has foregone strict chronology to link writers across eras and cultures.”—Louis Bayard, Washington Post Book World “Encyclopedic and critical, evenhanded and interpretive, Woods has produced a study that stands as a monument to the progress of gay literary criticism. No one to date has attempted such a grand world-wide history. . . . It cannot be recommended highly enough.”—Library Journal (a starred review) “A bold, intelligent and gorgeously encyclopedic study.”—Philip Gambone, Lambda Book Report “An exemplary piece of work.”—Jonathan Bate, The Sunday Telegraph
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Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing—not a distinct and differentiated category within it—Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the twentieth century that emphasizes the homo-erotic themes in the works of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn. Woods’s controlled and elegant study demonstrates that a critic who ignores the sexual orientation of a poet, particularly a love poet, risks overlooking the significance of the poetry itself.
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literary critic Lesbian and gay studies educator
Woods, Gregory was born on January 4, 1953 in Cairo. Son of Frederick and Charmion Woods.
He was educated at The Oratory School and the University of East Anglia (Bachelor English and American Literature, 1974. Master of Arts Modern Literature, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, 1983; Doctor of Letters , 2005).
Woods began his teaching career at the University of Salerno (1980-1984). From 1990 to 2013 he worked at Nottingham Trent University, where, in 1998, he was appointed to a Chair in Gay and Lesbian Studies, the first such appointment in the United Kingdom. On retirement, he was duly appointed Emeritus Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies.
Woods" main areas of interest include twentieth-century gay and lesbian literature.
Post-war gay and lesbian film and cultural studies. And the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic.
In addition to his poetry collections, he is the author of a number of critical books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press. Woods is a technically gifted poet who writes in free verse, syllabics and metre.
Thom Gunn wrote of the poems in his first collection: "I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling.. taken together, they constitute a handbook of desire.
Separately, each is an exquisite insight, rapid and rich. In the Times Literary Supplement (October 16, 1992), Neil Powell wrote, "The overwhelming impression of We Have the Melon remains that of frankly sexual joyousness matched by serious literary intelligence, a rare combination and a reassuring one." Among many literary-critical publications, Woods wrote the introduction for the 2013 Valancourt Books edition of A Room in Chelsea Square by Michael Nelson.
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The predominant tone is of a kind of delighted astonishment that mere sensuality can be so meaningful." Woods" subject matter is by no means limited to gay themes and his work is characterised by classical and literary allusions, a dry cynicism and waspish humour.
He has been a member of the board of directors of East Midlands Arts, is an artistic assessor for Arts Council England, and is a Fellow of the English Association.