
Oxford alone had a region of arcana and delight, which the world at large neither knew nor cared to know... Here Plato and my notebook lay open.
A autobiographical novel set in Oxford. Many characters were Warren's contemporaries, such as John Addington Symonds and Walter Pater.
Written by Edward Perry Warren as Arthur Lyon Raile. Although written in the 1880's it was first published in 1927.
The pseudonym of Edward "Ned" Perry Warren (8 January 1860 – 28 December 1928), an American art collector, poet, and queer theorist. He was born in Massachusetts and was educated at Harvard and Oxford, where he met his life partner, John Marshall.
The pair frequently traveled across Europe to collect and commission homoerotic artwork. Warren is best known as the long-time owner of the Warren Cup, a silver drinking cup featuring two carved instances of anal sex between males.