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Because Marlowe draws from ancient poems and myths, translating them or retelling them, his poems relate to several other books:
The Elegies are a translation of Ovid's Amores: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/ovid-amores/amores
Lucan's First Book is a translation of Lucan's Pharsalia: http://www.ancient-literature.com/rome_lucan_pharsalia.html
Hero and Leander refers to the mythological story and references Musaeous as the original author: http://www.bartleby.com/270/9/137.html
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The Question and Answer section for Christopher Marlowe’s Poems is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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The third, fourth, and fifth stanzas are a kind of list of the "delights", mostly sartorial, that the Shepherd will make for his lady love. Here it becomes clearer that the "Shepherd" is really none of the same; indeed, he is more like a feudal...
