Echoes From Theocritus And Other Poems

A collection of Uranian sonnets from this English Anglican clergyman and poet with a "soul lodged in Hellas," a graduate of Keble College, Oxford, who died young owing to a heart condition. His poems were initially published as four pamphlets in 1883-84 and collected, in a single volume containing many more sonnets in 1885 under the present title. There followed an 1897 collection with some additional poems and a biographical sketch. The present collection, introduced by John Addington Symonds, contains the 30 sonnets from the original title collection, plus 12 others. Edward Cracroft Lefroy (1855-1891) lived a simple and uneventful life, though one in he which experienced much physical suffering. Jane Austen was the aunt of his paternal grandfather. His poetry reflects his struggle with Neo-Hellenism and his sincere Christian faith, and while he was never a practicing homosexual, he did concede in his work to finding boys more attractive than girls. Good illustrations by noted artist John Austen to title page and text.