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…
The "Old" Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney wrote two romances which he called Arcadia. The revised version he never finished because of his untimely death on the bat…
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…
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…
Le Paradis Perdu
Comme Virgile a développé l’épopée à célébrer l’origine de sa propre patrie, Milton l’a ada…
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…