Cynthi
Cynthi

Author: Richard Barnfield

Publisher:

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781104639297

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Poems of Richard Barnfield
Poems of Richard Barnfield

Author: George Klawitter

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0595367984

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Richard Barnfield is an important Elizabethan poet whose work continues to gather appreciation from readers and critics alike. He was a brave voice in the English Renaissance who dared to publish poetry about one man's love for another man. In his student days in London, he published pastoral verse. Later his poetry turned didactic, but he never lost his gentle sense of line and image. For an unknown reason, he was disinherited by his father in favor of a younger brother, and Richard Barnfield lies today in an unmarked grave. His poetry continues to delight and amaze readers.

The Affectionate Shepherd
The Affectionate Shepherd

Author: Richard Barnfield

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781575910499

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Despite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?), his work has long been marginalized in English literary history because of its pervasive homoeroticism. Current interest in literary representations of gender and sexuality, in dissent from dominant ideologies, and in the early modern possibilities of same-sexual subjectivities, accounts for the renewed interest in Barnfield's poetry. This new collection of essays seeks to provide a forum for his evaluation and reinterpretation in accord with his topicality for literary studies today.