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Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. He is among the most famous of Shakespeare's contemporaries, though he died at the young age of 29. Marlowe's work is known for its blank verse, rich imagery, and often grandiose themes exploring
Learn about the life and achievements of Christopher Marlowe, a poet and dramatist who influenced Shakespeare and other 16th-century writers. Read his poems and plays, such as Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, and Doctor Faustus.
A romantic poem by the Elizabethan playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe, inviting a shepherdess to live with him in a pastoral paradise. The poem describes the pleasures of nature, love, and marriage with vivid imagery and sensual language.
Read the first sestiad of Marlowe's epic poem Hero and Leander, a tragic love story of two lovers separated by the Hellespont. Learn about the characters' beauty, fame, and fate, and the goddess Venus' role in their affair.
Hero And Leander: The First Sestiad. On Hellespont, guilty of true love’s blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoin’d by Neptune’s might; The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.
1593. Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove. That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls. Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Read poems by the Elizabethan dramatist and translator, including his famous 'Hero and Leander' and 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'. Learn about his life, works and legacy from the Poetry Archive.
