The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to William Shakespeare on the title page, only five of which are considered authentically Shakespearean (Number 1,2,3,5,16). These are two sonnets later to be published in the 1609 collection of Shakespeare's Sonnets (number 1 appears as Sonnet 138, number 2 appears as Sonnet 144), and three poems extracted from the play Love's Labour's Lost. Internal and external evidence contradicts the title page's attribution to Shakespeare. Five were attributed to other poets during his lifetime, and two were published in other collections anonymously. While most critics disqualify the rest as not Shakespearean on stylistic grounds, stylometric analysis by Ward Elliott and Robert Valenza put two blocks of the poems (4, 6, 7 and 9, and 10, 12, 13 and 15) within Shakespeare's stylistic boundaries. Jaggard later published an augmented edition with poems he knew to be by Thomas Heywood.
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The Passionate Pilgrim
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Country | England |
| Genre | Poetry, Renaissance poetry |
| Copyright | Public domain worldwide. |
| Book cover | - |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Google-digitized |
| Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive Reader: Caliban 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
| Read online | The Passionate Pilgrim |