Richard Barnfield's Poetics

Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare

Fabio Ciambella, Cristiano Ragni, Camilla Caporicci (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-45603-7 (ISBN)

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Edited collection on Richard Barnfield, a lesser known but important early modern English poet who was a contemporary of Shakespeare and wrote homoerotic verse.

Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare’s sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry.

This edited collection situates Barnfield’s position in early modern literature beyond his best known work, The Affectionate Shepherd, exploring his classical education, wider homoerotic verse and distinctive aesthetic literary style.

Making use of different approaches, the essays in this volume tackle issues of intertextuality and interdiscursivity through the poet’s use of classical sources and poetic genres such as the sonnet and epyllia. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between Barnfield’s work and that of his contemporaries. Traditionally limited to a comparison with Shakespeare’s output, this volume places Barnfield in the literary panorama of his time, giving specific attention to those features which make his work stand out. Using corpus linguistics tools, the poet’s entire body of work is further elucidated through the structure and meter of his sonnets as well as formal and functional aspects of his use of irony. Written by an international group of scholars, this collection celebrates the 450th anniversary of Barnfield’s birth and makes his poetry essential to the study of early modern literature.

Camilla Caporicci is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Perugia, Italy. Fabio Ciambella is a Researcher of English at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Cristiano Ragni is a Researcher in English Literature at the University of Verona, Italy.

Introduction by Camilla Caporicci, Fabio Ciambella, and Cristiano Ragni

Section I: Barnfield’s (Re)sources

1. Barnfield at grammar school: Orpheus’ ‘sad tears’ and the rhetoric of pathos, Max Riviera (University College London, UK)
2. Refashioning Antiquity: Richard Barnfield’s Cassandra, Cristiano Ragni (University of Verona, Italy)
3. Petrarch and Petrarchism in Richard Barnfield’s Love Lyrics, Shawn Smith (Longwood University, USA)
Section II: Barnfield and His Contemporaries
4. Richard Barnfield: Patronage, Intimacy, and Money, Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex, UK)
5. The female gaze? Seeing, seeming, and being seen in Richard Barnfield’s Cassandra and Thomas Powell’s Loues Leprosie, Evgeniia Ganberg (University of Cambridge, UK)
6. The Biblical Song of Songs in Richard Barnfield and His Contemporaries, Camilla Caporicci (University of Perugia, Italy)

Section III: In and Out Conventions in Barnfield’s Love Poetry

7. The Poetics of Unpersuasion: Barnfield's Affectionate Shepherd and Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, Tania Demetriou (University of Cambridge, UK)
8. Beauty on Trial: Aesthetics, Law, and Eros in Richard Barnfield’s Cynthia, Danila Sokolov (University of Iceland, Iceland)
9. Escaping Conventionality: The ‘Barnfieldian’ Revolution, Mattia Italiano (University of Perugia, Italy)
10. Otherwise than (in truth) I meant’: Homoeroticism in Richard Barnfield’s Poetry” by Harry Matthews (University of Loughborough, UK)

Section IV: Linguistic and Stylistic Approaches to Barnfield’s Poems

11. If Music and Sweet Poetry agree’: Structure and Metre in Barnfield’s Cynthia Sonnet, Alison Steenson (University of Sussex, UK)
12. A Stylistic Approach to Irony in Barnfield’s Lady Pecunia, Aoife Beville (University of Naples, Italy)
13. A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Barnfield’s Complete Works, Fabio Ciambella (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Afterword by Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-45603-9 / 1350456039
ISBN-13	978-1-350-45603-7 / 9781350456037
Zustand	Neuware