The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
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Homoerotic Verse. One of the many surpris of the poetry of al-Andal (as the Moors lled the land they occupied the Iberian Pensula) is the existence of homoerotic verse.
The ntued and wispread penng of homoerotic poetry reflected, then, a marked ambivalence or at least ut acceptance when popular attu was measured agast orthodox stanc. In reciproted homosexual love, Ibn Hazm seems to suggt that relatnship be rtricted to chaste embrac and kiss whout terurse or at least should not ge on public moraly.
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One of the bt-known poets of homoerotic verse is Ibn Shuhayd (992-1035), like Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi, om Córdoba. A fal example shows how difficult is sometim to distguish between homosexual and heterosexual poems, sce the imagery n be siar to that ed scribg the lady. The sensatn om readg this kd of poetry –not only homoerotic but also heterosexual– is that of refed eroticism and dolent pleasure.
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