Thomas A. Copeland
A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…
Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode
A young soldier born among Tartars but sired by the mighty Persian lord Rustum, serves in the Tartar army, seeking his great father. To this…
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…
The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
The first two tales involve the persona's relationship with a certain Aherne, who has come into possession of a beautiful book by Joachim of…
The Anniversary Poems
Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of th…
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…
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…
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. …
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 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…
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 Counterfeiters
In Les Faux-monnayeurs André Gide examines the lives of several individuals and families in the Paris of 1925, following their interr…