The Complete Poems and Translations (Penguin Classics)

The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright-newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays-and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist-Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works-from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," to the impressive epic mythological poem "Hero and Leander."