The Complete Poems and Translations
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Book Overview
The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwrightnewly revised and updated Though best known for his playsand for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheistChristopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric worksfrom 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140422676
ISBN13:9780140422672
Release Date:January 1980
Publisher:Penguin Group
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.41 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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the sun's flame-bearing chariot
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Marlowe's gifts as a dramatist are easily matched by his poetic accomplishments in other genres. While some may find his declamatory style and tendency toward bombast wearying in the plays, it is perfectly suited to the frieze-like beauties of HERO AND LEANDER, and particularly to the rhetorical excesses of Lucan, whose first book Marlowe translated "line for line." And few translations of Ovid AMORES capture his eroticism and wit as well as Marlowe's. A must-have selection of poems, convenient and affordable, although the apparatus and notes are not as helpful as those in the Penguin edition (now sadly out of print) edited by Stephen Orgel.
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