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- # The *Passionate Pilgrim*
## Overview
This chapter, titled "The *Passionate Pilgrim*", is a textual analysis and historical overview of the poetry collection of the same name. It details the contents, authorship, publication history, and various editions of *The Passionate Pilgrim*. The chapter was extracted from a larger work, [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF), and spans lines 6969 to 8006 of its source text.
## Context
This chapter is part of a scholarly collection of facsimile editions of William Shakespeare's works, [Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles (Facsimile Editions)](arke:01KG6S3KNZT62WVVW4VT384KPF). It was extracted from the text file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) and is associated with the broader [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53 collection](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y). It follows a preceding chapter also titled [THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM](arke:01KG6S4F4360HWZBZH5VXVTGFY) and precedes a chapter titled [THE PASSIONATE PILGRIME.](arke:01KG6S4FQA87GGTP9WPXRHNT72).
## Contents
The chapter provides a comprehensive examination of *The Passionate Pilgrim*, covering:
- **Composition and Authorship:** It describes *The Passionate Pilgrim* as a collection of fourteen lyrical pieces with an appendix of six additional pieces, noting their varied poetic merit and meters. Crucially, it argues that internal and external evidence refute the title-page's assertion that all contents are by Shakespeare, attributing no more than five poems confidently to him.
- **Publication History:** The chapter details the role of publisher William Jaggard, describing his "speculative boldness" and "unscrupulous methods" in assembling and publishing the miscellany in 1599. It highlights Jaggard's association with William Leake and the printing by Peter Short.
- **Manuscript Sources and Piracy:** It discusses the common practice of Elizabethan publishers acquiring "private" or unpublished poems from manuscript sources, often without the author's consent or knowledge, and sometimes misattributing them. Examples like Richard Jones's *Brittons Bowre of Delights* and Thomas Newman's publication of Sidney's sonnets are provided.
- **Shakespeare's Contributions:** The chapter identifies two of Shakespeare's sonnets (CXXXVIII and CXLIV from the 1609 edition) and three excerpts from *Love's Labour's Lost* (Nos. III, V, and XVI) as genuine contributions. It notes textual discrepancies, suggesting Jaggard used privately circulating copies.
- **Non-Shakespearean Poems:** It analyzes four sonnets on the theme of Venus and Adonis (Nos. IV, VI, IX, XI), refuting their Shakespearean authorship despite Jaggard's attempts to link them to Shakespeare's popular poem. It attributes No. XI to B. Griffin and identifies Nos. VIII, XVII, and XX as contributions by Richard Barnfield. Marlowe's lyric "Come live with me and be my love" (No. XIX) and Sir Walter Raleigh's "Loues answere" are also discussed.
- **Later Editions:** The chapter traces the reprints of *The Passionate Pilgrim*, including a lost second edition, the third edition of 1612 (which controversially added Heywood's translations of Ovid's Epistles and led to Heywood's protest), and the 1640 "Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent." It also covers 18th-century reprints by Bernard Lintott and Edmund Curll, and Malone's 1780 "Supplement" which restored the text of the original edition.
- **Census of Copies:** It concludes with a census of extant copies of the first and third editions, noting two copies for each, located in public and private collections in England.
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