I'll send the Giantvalley reference when I can get at my pile of Drayton
notes and my Barnfield file. In the meantime, beware of Grosart's
edition. Ken borris and George Klawitter warned me off it and I think they
are right--Grosart assumes that one group of writings in an unpublished
notebook are by Barnfield (one book on homoeroticism in early modern
England calls one of the poems "pornographic," which is a stretch, and the
others "robustly heterosexual," which may be a bit truer). But here is no
good evidence, I agree, that this commonplace book is by Barnfield. It is
fun, though. Anne Prescott.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Peter Zenner wrote:
> Anne Prescott wrote:-
> > I find this thread mighty peculiar and I'm not sure I really want to
> > extend it further, but for articles/books that deal with Spenser's
> > relation to Harvey and for any possible homoerotic overtone, one should
> > look not only at Jonathan Goldberg's relevant book and essays but do an
> > MLA data base check for materials on Richard Barnfield--one essay by
> > Giantvalley, whose first name I have forgotten touches on Barnfield,
> > Drayton, and as I recall Spenser.
>
> I have read a piece by Andrew Worrall on Barnfield and he refers
> to someone called Giantvalley -- can you point me to where his
> essay may be found?
>
> >I have a related piece myself on
> > Barnfield, Spenser, the January Eclogue coming out in a volume edited by
> > Ken Borris and George Klawitter.
>
> That must be the book that I am waiting for -- was it supposed to
> be out last spring?
>
> >Most important here is the impact of
> > Virgil's second eclogue (on which see also Greg Bredbeck, e.g., on
> > Marlowe). The point is that Harvey and spenser and the January eclogue is
> > a rich and complex topic that involves their individual human relations,
> > sure, but also a literary tradition, a shared memory of a very--I think
> > "homosocial" might be the term here--education that involved pastoral and
> > excluded women and was more for the young than for those on whom Saturn or
> > even Jove shone. I don't know what the relation of Spenser and Harvey was,
> > exactly, although Nashe called Spenser's affection for Harvey ("this boil
> > on
> > the brow of the university") his only fault. But that E.K. (and
> > Spenser) are flirting with Rome-derived notions of what we (but probably
> > not they) would call homosexuality, or homoeroticism, seems to me quite
> > clear. Why they do so, and to what end (so to speak), I don't
> > know. Bonding? What is amusing/intriguing is to see Richard Barnfield
> > imitate E.K. in forms of denial that do not really deny. Anne Prescott.
>
> I have Grosart's book on 'Barnfield' and his works and have been
> studying them most carefully. My conclusion is that 'Barnfield' was
> another of the many pseudonyms that Marlowe adopted when he
> was exiled in 1593. But that is another story... :-)
>
> Peter Zenner
>
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