Eugene B. Cantelupe (essay date January 1963)
SOURCE: Cantelupe, Eugene B. “Hero and Leander: Marlowe's Tragicomedy of Love.” College English 24, no. 4 (January 1963): 295-98.
[In the following essay, Cantelupe discusses Hero and Leander as a tragicomedy.]
The seriocomic “Court of Love,” the anonymous erotic allegory written in the early part of the sixteenth century, foretells certain Ovidian poems that appear at the end of the century. English poets of the Ovidian school, like the humanists of Northern Europe, show a...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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