The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe in the 1590s.

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English - Christopher Marlowe - 1590s

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In addition to being one of the most well-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period.

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Pastoral - British - Renaissance

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The poem was the subject of a well-known "reply" by Walter Raleigh, called

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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.

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The poem was used as the lyrics of 1930s-style swing melody in the 1995 movie Richard III based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, who was a contemporary of Marlowe.

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1930s - 1995 - Richard III - William Shakespeare

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