[Gay literature] Charles Sayle. Musa Consolatrix

London, David Nutt, 1893. 1st ed. 130 p. 8vo. Sc in modern clamshell box. Covers and binding worn, some browning.

Charles Sayle (1864-1924) was at the center of the Uranian group of poets that incl. a.o. Oscar Browning, Edward Carpenter, John Gambril Nicholson and Ernest Dowson. This collection of poetry is perhaps the most overtly Uranian in tone (w. poems dedicated to Richard Barnfield and Ernest Dowson).