The Complete Poems and Translations

by Christopher Marlowe and Stephen Orgel

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...

• 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

the sun's flame-bearing chariot

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.