This past week I taught a short course on reading and enjoying poetry, bookended and interrupted by Ogden Nash. Among other things, it included a selection from the four-hundred-year tradition of poets responding to Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (posthumous publication1, 1599), ranging from Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s …
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