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Hero and Leander and Other Poems

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A sequence opens with an unfinished narrative poem that follows two mythic lovers who risk a nightly crossing to be together, rendered in richly sensual Elizabethan verse and concluding with another poet's continuation; the rest of the volume compiles short pastoral and elegiac lyrics, a famous shepherd's pastoral, a Latin funeral piece, and a verse dialogue. Recurring concerns include erotic longing, the tension between desire and destiny, and the musical, rhetorical qualities of early modern poetry.

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