The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
2019
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4.08
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"The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd" (1600), by Walter Raleigh, is a poem that responds to and parodies the poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1599), by Christopher Marlowe. In her reply to the shepherd’s courtship, the nymph presents a point-by-point rejection of the his offer of a transitory life of passion and pastoral idyll.
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4.08
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