The Collected Works & Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren
The Collected Works & Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren
Michael Matthew Kaylor (ed.)
Edward Perry Warren (1860–1928) graduated from Harvard College, then New College, Oxford. He later became the foremost connoisseur and collector of Graeco-Roman antiquities of his period, as well as a wealthy patron. Under his pseudonym “Arthur Lyon Raile” he also became the premier paederastic apologist in the language – through his novel A Tale of Pausanian Love (written in 1887) – through his Itamos: A Volume of Poems (1903), which expanded into The Wild Rose (1928) – and especially through his three-volume magnum opus, A Defence of Uranian Love (1928–1930).
Besides providing scholarly editions of Warren’s utterly rare works, the present Collected Works & Commissioned Biography also includes Osbert Burdett and E. H. Goddard’s Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur (1941) – commissioned by Warren and incorporating his fragmentary autobiography – and Burdett’s An Imaginary Conversation (1933), in which he recounts a discussion he had had with Warren concerning Shakespeare’s play As You Like It.
These works (all, save one, never before re-issued) are here augmented with a biographical introduction by the present editor, as well as by extensive notes, translations, illustrations, and appendices.
Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
1500 p. in two volumes, 148 x 210 mm, hardcover. ISBN 978-80-210-6345-7
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