The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly
revised and updated
Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger as a
homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist--Christopher Marlowe was
also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and
revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete
lyric works--from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous
poem, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, to the impressive epic
mythological poem Hero and Leander.
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up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.