Walt Whitman, 'I Sing the Body Electric', in The Complete Poems ( London: Penguin, 1996), 127.
2.
William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe (London: Hogarth Press, 1925).
3.
William Plomer, I Speak of Africa (London: Hogarth Press, 1927); Sado (London : Hogarth Press, 1931); Notes for Poems (London: Hogarth Press, 1927); The Five-Fold Screen (London: Hogarth Press, 1932).
4.
William Plomer, Gloriana: An Opera in Three Acts (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1953); set to music by Benjamin Britten.
5.
William Plomer, Curlew River :A Parable for Church Performance (London : Boosey & Hawkes, 1964); set to music by Benjamin Britten.
6.
Peter Alexander, William Plomer : A Btogrnpity (Oxford: Oxford, 1989), 166.
7.
Ibid, 164.
8.
Sigmund Freud, 'Fetishism', in On Sexuality, Vol. 7 of The Pengum Freud Library, eds Angela Richards and Albert Dickson, trans. James Strachey (London: Penguin, 1977), 354.
9.
Laura Mulvey, 'Xala, Ousmane Sembene 1976: The Carapace That Failed', in Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf , 1993), 520.
10.
Cited by Caroline Rooney, African Literature, Animism and Politics (London: Routledge, 2000), 172.
11.
Leo Bersani, 'Is the rectum a grave?', October, 43 (1987), 197-222 (p.210).
12.
W.H. Auden 'We have brought you, they said, a map of the country', in The Orators : An English Study (London: Faber , 1932), 46-7. My thanks to Jan Montefiore for this suggestion.
13.
Gregory Woods, A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998), 192.
14.
William Plomer, 'A Fall of Rock', in Collected Poems (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973), 19-20.
15.
William Plomer, Selected Stones, ed. Stephen Gray (Johannesburg: Africasouth Paperbacks, 1984), 55.
16.
W. B. Yeats 'He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven', in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1968), 81.
17.
Letter from Spender to Plomer, Plomer 213/11, Durham University Library, [probably October], 1931, unpublished.
18.
Letter from Spender to Plomer, Plomer 213/8, Durham University Library, Wednesday [1931], unpublished.
19.
Letter from Spender to Plomer, Plomer 213/12, Durham University Library, Bei Weiss, Kleiststr. 15, Berlin, Armistice Day and Nov. 12 [1931], unpublished.
