Thomas A. Copeland
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…
Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
A High Wind in Jamaica
Childhood and piracy: an unlikely pairing, in a tragi-comic adventure. Neither Treasure Island nor Peter Pan prepares one for the kind of de…
Four Hymns
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud f…
Imre: A Memorandum
This 1906 novel, published one year after Freud's first articles on homosexuality, may well be the first gay novel with a happy ending. In s…
Tim: A Story of School Life
Young Tim, whose father is disappointed in him, forms a close friendship with an older boy, for whom his father conceives a strong dislike. …
A Marriage Below Zero
By 1889, when A Marriage below Zero appeared, very few English novels had been published that contained even a hint of homoeroticism. The Pi…
Cecil Dreeme
The author of this gothic tale was one of the first Union soldiers to lose his life in the Civil War. His semi-autobiographical novel focuse…
Orlando Inamorato
This black-letter document from 1592 consists of the first three cantos of Book One of the Italian romance-epic of the same name of the prec…
The Counterfeiters
In Les Faux-monnayeurs André Gide examines the lives of several individuals and families in the Paris of 1925, following their interr…
The History of John Winchomb, Usually Called Jack of Newbury
This early novel, a collection of biographical tales about a nonfictional individual, a clothier, provides a rare glimpse of daily life in a…
The Story of Damon and Pythias
Damon, a Syracusan senator, is to be beheaded for treason, but the new king permits a general, Pythias, to pledge his own life for his frien…