Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 53 IS - no. 1 T2 - SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 SP - 53-71 ID - bbbc189 T1 - "Homoerotic Desire and Renaissance Lyric Verse" AU - Yearling, Rebecca PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - homoeroticism LA - English AB - Compares the negative initial reception of Sonnets and Richard Barnfield's Affectionate Shepheard, both of which contain homoerotic verse. Argues that these works were not rejected solely on the basis of their subject matter, but because of the authors' choice to use lyric verse rather than narrative or dramatic verse in the expression of the homoerotic. ER -