A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, an 1871 prose-poem by the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist painter, Simeon Solomon, is regarded as a pioneering work in the history of gay literature.
However, two years after A Vision… was published, many of the painter’s friends and admirers distanced themselves following his arrest for indecent behaviour in a public lavatory, an incident that proved ruinous to his career and led in time to an alcoholic decline and the workhouse.