Richard Barnfield is an important Elizabethan poet whose work continues to gather appreciation from readers and critics alike. He was a brave voice in the English Renaissance who dared to publish poetry about one man's love for another man.In his student days in London, he published pastoral verse. Later his poetry turned didactic, but he never lost his gentle sense of line and image.For an unknown reason, he was disinherited by his father in favor of a younger brother, and Richard Barnfield lies today in an unmarked grave. His poetry continues to delight and amaze readers.

• Galatea and Midas: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
• The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics)
• Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus (New Mermaids)
• Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare The Complete Sonnets and Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
• The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays