TY  - BOOK
AU  - Louÿs,Pierre
TI  - Les chansons de Bilitis
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - French poetry
KW  - Lesbians -- Poetry
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Bilitis https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chansons_de_Bilitis; Release date is 2003-12-01; Produced by Carlo Traverso, Robert Rowe, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
HTML version by Chuck Greif; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Les chansons de Bilitis" by Pierre Louÿs is a collection of erotic poetry published in 1894. Louÿs presented these sensual verses as translations from ancient Greek texts by a fictional courtesan named Bilitis, a contemporary of Sappho. The elaborate hoax fooled scholars initially, complete with fabricated archaeological documentation. The 143 prose poems trace Bilitis's life through three stages—from childhood innocence to lesbian love affairs to life as a courtesan. Though exposed as a pseudotranslation, the work gained lasting significance for its sympathetic celebration of lesbian sexuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708
ER  -