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For all their intricacies, the poems, as Tate reads them, are as accessible as music: the ironic knell of "Jubilo," the vaguely erotic syncopation of "Shadow and Shade," the echoes of "The Swimmers" which seem to fall in terzarima without apparent effort.
Things patch up and a two-year homosexual affair follows. Forster handles love scenes with exquisite tact, neither prudish nor extravagant, but by even the broadest of erotic standards, the novel is decidedly small-time stuff--gentle rather than sensual.
Two themes in particular haunted him: fetishism and an erotic consciousness of death. Nowhere did he express this desire to tie love and death together more succinctly than in an etching of 1884 called Finis. It is the last plate in an ironical series on the life of a "fallen...
More disciplined communes had better luck. Houriet describes the evolution of New Buffalo, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico, which painfully expelled the hordes of parasitic potheads who had drifted in to live off the efforts of a hard-working minority. A different proposition is Harrad West,* a...
Nobody but Critic George Steiner could write in all seriousness of "the erotic relations between speaker and speech." To him, language is fundamentally the language of love: man wooing meaning, down to the coyest nuance, the most maidenly scruple. Like a Kinsey of linguistics, Steiner submits his report on the...