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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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sets both poems, giving Marlowe's words to tenors and basses, with the women singing Raleigh's reply, and the men singing over the women, changing the feel from question and reply to two people not listening each other.
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The poem inspired parodies, such as "The Milkmaid's Song," "The Rinker's Song" and "The Passionate Statistician to his Love." This last appeared in the satirical magazine
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The line "Come live with me and be my love" was the inspiration for the 1941 film
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Subsequent responses to Marlowe have come from numerous other writers, including
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The poem was adapted for the lyrics of the 1930s-style swing song performed by
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used a version of the song in its production (set at the end of
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The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson
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song "Antarctica" (1996) from the album of the same name, and
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Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
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Williams, William Carlos (1962) . "Raleigh Was Right".
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Presumed portrait
Christopher Marlowe
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Christopher Marlowe
pastoral poem
English Renaissance
iambic tetrameter
stanzas
Walter Raleigh
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
John Donne
Izaak Walton
Robert Herrick
C. Day Lewis
William Carlos Williams
Dorothy Parker
Ogden Nash
W. D. Snodgrass
Douglas Crase
Greg Delanty
Punch)
George Goschen
Florence Nightingale
E. T. Cook
William Sterndale Bennett
madrigal
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Nanette Fabray
Olivia de Havilland

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