The Passionate Pilgrim

Name: The Passionate Pilgrim
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781908650115

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Edith Evans

Unabridged: 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Published: 01/12/2011

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

The Passionate Pilgrim was an anthology of twenty poems attributed to William Shakespeare but which present-day scholars think just five of these poems were written by the Bard. Here, the most popular four poems, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets To Sundry Notes of Music, A Lover's Complaint, and The Pheonix and The Turtle are read by Edith Evans, Donald Wolfit, Joan Hart and William Squire.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Olivia-Savannah on August 11, 2020

My edition of The Passionate Pilgrim also includes the sonnets to sundry music. I really liked the latter - they were fun and entertaining. The actual Passionate Pilgrim part was just okay. Again, as always with Shakespeare, beautifully written. But just didn't captivate me much. I think I much pref......more

Goodreads review by C. on March 09, 2025

Quite good. Some poems were deep. Some were funny.......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on May 01, 2021

I did enjoy the first 15 (I think several of them have already been published as parts of other poems or sonnets?), not so much the Sonnets to sundry notes of music.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 11, 2013

I enjoyed this immensely. I'm a bit old fashioned in some ways, and I loved the Thomas Deloney poem on "Crabbed age and youth cannot live together", and Richard Banfield's "As it fell upon today", and William Shakespeare's "Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good". This is a collection of thirteen po......more

Goodreads review by Brett on December 13, 2024

Like Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim was published as a clear attempt to profit off of the Shakespeare name/brand. Unlike those other two works, Pilgrim simply does not feel very Shakespearean at all. Only 5 of the collection's 20 poems are certainly Shakespeare......more