{"product_id":"2940169101775","title":"A Selection of Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh","description":"Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 ¿ 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. C. S. Lewis considered Raleigh one of the era's \"silver poets\", a group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence of dense classical reference and elaborate poetic devices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn poems such as \"What is Our Life\" and \"The Lie\", Raleigh expresses a contemptus mundi (contempt of the world) attitude more characteristic of the Middle Ages than of the dawning era of humanistic optimism. But, his lesser-known long poem \"The Ocean to Cynthia\" combines this vein with the more elaborate conceits associated with his contemporaries Edmund Spenser and John Donne, expressing a melancholy sense of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA minor poem of Raleigh's captures the atmosphere of the court at the time of Queen Elizabeth I. His response to Christopher Marlowe's \"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love\" was \"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd\". \"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love\" was written in 1592, while Raleigh's \"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd\" was written four years later. Both were written in the style of traditional pastoral poetry. They follow the same structure of six four-line stanzas employing a rhyme scheme of AABB. (Introduction by Wikipedia)Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 ¿ 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. C. S. Lewis considered Raleigh one of the era's \"silver poets\", a group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence of dense classical reference and elaborate poetic devices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn poems such as \"What is Our Life\" and \"The Lie\", Raleigh expresses a contemptus mundi (contempt of the world) attitude more characteristic of the Middle Ages than of the dawning era of humanistic optimism. But, his lesser-known long poem \"The Ocean to Cynthia\" combines this vein with the more elaborate conceits associated with his contemporaries Edmund Spenser and John Donne, expressing a melancholy sense of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA minor poem of Raleigh's captures the atmosphere of the court at the time of Queen Elizabeth I. His response to Christopher Marlowe's \"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love\" was \"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd\". \"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love\" was written in 1592, while Raleigh's \"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd\" was written four years later. Both were written in the style of traditional pastoral poetry. They follow the same structure of six four-line stanzas employing a rhyme scheme of AABB. (Introduction by Wikipedia)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems in this collection:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epitaph\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Nymph¿s Reply to the Shepherd The Lie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Passionate Man¿s Pilgrimage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Farewell to False Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Praised be Diana¿s Fair and Harmless Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Farewell to the Court\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e To her Love when He had obtained Her\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Vision upon this Conceit of the Fairy Queen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e On the Cards and Dice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Silent Lover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e As You Came from the Holy Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Excuse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Description of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e An Epitaph Upon the Right Honorable Sir Philip Sidney, Knight, Lord Governor of Flushing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Another of the Same (the Faerie Queene)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Ocean to Cynthia (fragment)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Farewell to the Vanities of the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114085400816,"sku":"2940169101775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169101775_p0.jpg?v=1772800382","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169101775","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}