The Passionate Pilgrim
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- For the Henry James novella, see A Passionate Pilgrim.
The Passionate Pilgrim is a collection of poems, first published in 1599, which according to the title-page were "By W. Shakespeare".
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Only five of the twenty poems can be identified as Shakespeare's, these are poems 1 and 2, which are numbers 138 and 144 of Shakespeare's sonnets, and poems 3, 5, and 16, which are from Love's Labour's Lost. Four of the other poems can be identified as the work of other writers. Poem 19 is an inferior text of Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love followed by one stanza of Sir Walter Raleigh's "Reply." Poem 11 is a sonnet by Bartholomew Griffin, printed in his Fidessa (1596). Poems 8 and 20 are by Richard Barnfield, published in his Poems in Divers Humors (1598).
The remaining eleven poems are of uncertain authorship. Critic Hallett Smith has identified poem 12 as the one most often favored by readers as possibly Shakespearean—"but there is nothing to support the attribution."
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. An expanded edition of 1612 added poems by Thomas Heywood, whose protests prompted Jaggard to withdraw the attribution to Shakespeare (after two published editions).
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[edit] Reference
G. Blakemore Evans, textual editor, The Riverside Shakespeare, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1974; pp. 1787-94.
Alan Hayes, Sex in Elizabethan England Gloustershire, Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997; p95.
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[edit] External links
- The Passionate Pilgrim at Project Gutenberg (omits poems identifiably by others)
