Ganymede & Bacchus
Roden Noel (1834-1894) was a prolific poet. He wrote some ten volumes of poetry and many other works in his lifetime and yet, despite being admired by John Addington Symonds among others, he is, to all intents and purposes, unkown today. His poetry is sinuous and laden with imagery and description, it is not easy poetry, and yet it very much repays a careful reading.
Avowedly bisexual, Noel was a master of sensuously homoerotic verse. A number of his other poems with homoerotic flavours have already found separate publication in the twentieth century but both of the poems reproduced here have only been available in their original states until now. This title also includes, in the appendix, the case study of Noel by Havelock Ellis in his Sexual Inversion.
This publication includes four illustrations by Sue Martin, printed straight from the artist's blocks.
This is a numbered edition of 50 copies printed on white Fabriano ingres paper and sewn into blue card covers. The cost is £9.99 + P&P.
by Roden Noel
