Hero and Leander is a short, amorous epic written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter. It is divided into cantos called “sestiads,” after a verse form which gains its name from the isle of ...

In a strange sense Hero and Leander is the most fully idealized anti-idealistic poem of the late sixteenth century and a perfect counter to Petrarchism in being so, for what is idealized is the ...

Hero and Leander is a remarkable achievement, principally because of its curious tone, an unusual blend of apparently affectionate but actually scathingly unsentimental comedy and iconoclastic ...

Hero and Leander was probably composed during Marlowe's last years, while Góngora's fabula was written in two distinct segments. The beginning of the narrative, “Aunque entiendo poco griego ...

W. L. Godshalk, “Hero and Leander: the Sense of an Ending,” in “A Poet and a Filthy Playmaker”: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe, ed. Kenneth Friedenreich, Roma Gill, and Constance B ...

Hero and Leander is conventionally regarded as a fragmented poem, begun by Marlowe and completed by Chapman. Critical interest has centered, therefore, on defining the nature of the two parts and ...

Hero and Leander is an expression of the Renaissance “humanistic” perspective, for the work takes human physical love as its subject and gives the reader a psychological portrait of the ...

Investigates the influence of Musaeus's version of the Hero and Leander story on Marlowe's poem. Braunmuller, A. R. “Marlowe's Amorous Fates in Hero and Leander. ” The Review of English ...

The love of Leander for Hero is provided with the foil of false love, giving the whole poem wider definition and meaning. 12 His use of the Hero story, like the use of the Caeneus myth ...

Hero and Leander Christopher Marlowe . The following entry presents criticism of Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander.. When he was killed in 1593, Marlowe left behind the apparently fragmentary poem ...