The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe

ISBN13: 9780195147773ISBN10: 0195147774 Paperback, 320 pages
Oct 2005,  In Stock

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320 pages; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-514777-3ISBN10: 0-19-514777-4
This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright, than any other volume currently in print.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction: Authorship in Marlowe's Poems, Patrick Cheney
The Edition
Marlowe as an Elizabethan Poet
Ovid's Elegies
Davies's Epigrams
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Lucan's First Book
Hero and Leander
Chapman's Continuation
Petowe's Continuation
The Manwood Epitaph
The Dedicatory Epistle to Mary Sidney Herbert
A Note on Marlowe and Translation, Brian J. Striar
Reading List
Note on the Text
Marlowe's Poems
Ovid's Elegies
Sir John Davies, Epigrams
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
From England's Helicon (1600)
From The Passionate Pilgrim (1599)
Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply"
Anonymous, "Another of the Same Nature, Made Since"
John Donne, "The Bait"
From Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (4.2.99-109)
From William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (3.1.8-35)
J. Paulin, "Love's Contentment"
Robert Herrick, "To Phillis to love, and live with him"
Lucan's First Book
Hero and Leander
George Chapman, Continuation of Hero and Leander
Henry Petowe, The Second Part of Hero and Leander, Containing their Further Fortunes
Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood
In obitum honoratissimi viri Rogeri Manwood militis quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Baronis
"On the death of the most honorable man Roger Manwood, the military attorney and baron of the Queen's Exchequer," translated by Brian J. Striar
The Dedicatory Epistle to Mary Sidney Herbert
Illustrissiame Heroinae ominbus & animi, & corporis dotibus ornatissimae, Mariae Penbrokiae Comitissae
"To the Most Illustrious Woman, adorned with all gifts of mind and body, Mary, Countess of Pembroke," translated by Brian J. Striar
Index