The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- First Published: 1599
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Rural or country life, Sixteenth century, Shepherds, Pleasure, Leisure, Spring
The Poem
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a love poem that contains six quatrains of rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter. In marked contrast to Christopher Marlowe’s plays about heroes and kings, this lyric poem purports to be the words of a shepherd speaking to his beloved. Its simple, musical language and fanciful imagery create an idyll of innocent love. The version of the poem that was printed in 1599 contained four stanzas attributed to William Shakespeare; the poem was printed again in 1600, in Englands Helicon, with only the six stanzas attributed...
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See Also:
Christopher Marlowe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Christopher Marlowe (Poetry)Christopher Marlowe (Drama)Christopher Marlowe (Dictionary of World Biography)
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