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A review by pixieauthoress
The Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe
2.0
Read "Hero and Leander" for EN4341: Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580-1660.
My rating is based upon the poem "Hero and Leander", so perhaps it would be higher if I read some of the other poems in this collection. As it stands, I didn't find "Hero and Leander" terribly interesting, even after hearing a lecture on it and meeting with my study group. Often studying a text can give the reader a deeper appreciation of it, but that wasn't the case for this poem. I enjoyed Marlowe's "Dr Faustus" when I read it a couple of years ago, but I think this poem would be better enjoyed by someone who has a stronger understanding of classical literature. My study group spent a lot of time looking up Greek myths in the hope it would help us understand this poem better, and although it made slightly more sense in the end, I didn't like the poem any better. 2*
My rating is based upon the poem "Hero and Leander", so perhaps it would be higher if I read some of the other poems in this collection. As it stands, I didn't find "Hero and Leander" terribly interesting, even after hearing a lecture on it and meeting with my study group. Often studying a text can give the reader a deeper appreciation of it, but that wasn't the case for this poem. I enjoyed Marlowe's "Dr Faustus" when I read it a couple of years ago, but I think this poem would be better enjoyed by someone who has a stronger understanding of classical literature. My study group spent a lot of time looking up Greek myths in the hope it would help us understand this poem better, and although it made slightly more sense in the end, I didn't like the poem any better. 2*