The British Renaissance Produced Many Types Of Literature And Was Infl
The British Renaissance Produced Many Types of Literature and Was Influenced By
Shakespeare, Marlow, and Spenser
The British Renaissance produced many types of literature for the world
to see. Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marlowe all contributed to the shaping of the
time period. Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
portrays one of the typical love poems that can be seen from the Renaissance. A
man is in search of the love of another girl, or woman. Sir Walter Raleigh
wrote a poem in response to this passage of Marlowe's entitled "The Nymph's
Reply to the Shepherd." Although the name of the girl is not stated anywhere in
the former poem, Raleigh decided to use a wood nymph as his subject. The
Shepherd seems to be a meaningful man. His plead for the nymph's love seems
true, but is hollow. The Nymph's reply frankly points this out to the Shepherd
in her reply and jokingly refuses him her love. The themes of age, weather and
the seasons, and......
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