TY  - BOOK
AU  - Louÿs,Pierre
AU  - Buck,Mitchell S.
TI  - The songs of Bilitis
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - French poetry -- Translations into English
KW  - Lesbians -- Poetry
N1  - Purported translation of ancient Greek poems, originally written in French by Pierre Louÿs; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Bilitis; Release date is 2025-08-07; Hannah Wilson, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.); Originally published; Unknown: Privately printed, 1919
N2  - "The Songs of Bilitis: Translated from the Greek" by Pierre Louÿs is a collection of erotic poetry published in 1894. Louÿs presented these lesbian love poems as ancient Greek works by Bilitis, a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, complete with fabricated scholarly apparatus including a fictional archaeologist's discovery. The pseudotranslation initially deceived experts before being exposed as Louÿs's original creation. The poems trace three phases of life—from childhood innocence through passionate same-sex love to melancholy reflection—blending sensuality with classical style while openly celebrating lesbian sexuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Songs_of_Bilitis_Translated_from_the/dZFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76646
ER  -