Roaming the Greenwood
Colm Tóibín: A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods, 21 January 1999
A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
by Gregory Woods.
Yale, 448 pp., £24.95, February 1998,0 300 07201 5 Show More
by Gregory Woods.
Yale, 448 pp., £24.95, February 1998,
“... Mine be thy love, and thy love’s use their treasure. In The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Helen Vendler points out that ‘the individual letters of the word “h-e-w-s” (the Quarto spelling) or “h-u-e-s” [are] in as many lines as possible’ in Sonnet 20. She also notes the ‘unique case’ of feminine rhymes throughout the sonnet. Woods ... ”