The pilgrim in love
The Pilgrim in Love ( English . The Passionate Pilgrim ) is a 1599 published collection of poems attributed to William Shakespeare on the title page . Presumably only five of the twenty poems were written by Shakespeare. The poems are about winning love.
Poems 1 and 2 correspond to Shakespeare's sonnets 138 and 144, and poems 3, 5, and 16 are from Love's Labor's Lost . Four of the other poems have been identified as works by other authors. Poem 19 is a text from Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, based on a punch by Sir Walter Raleigh , "Reply." Poem 11 is a sonnet from Bartholomew Griffin's Fidessa (1596). Poems 8 and 20 appeared in Richard Barnfield Poems in Divers Humors (1598).
The authorship of the remaining eleven poems is difficult to determine. The literary critic Hallett Smith identified poem 12 as the most widely suspected by readers to be Shakespeare's, although no convincing reasons could be given.
The Pilgrim in Love was published by William Jaggard , later publisher of the folio edition of Shakespeare's works. An edition expanded to include Thomas Heywood's poems in 1612 brought Jaggard protests against the Shakespeare attribution.