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Duncan, Helga. "'Headdie Ryots' as Reformations: Marlowe's Libertine Poetics".(Christopher Marlowe)(Critical essay)

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From: Early Modern Literary Studies
Date: 20060901
Author:Duncan, Helga

"Headdie Ryots" as Reformations: Marlowe's Libertine Poetics

Helga Duncan

Stonehill College

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Duncan, Helga. "'Headdie Ryots' as Reformations: Marlowe's Libertine Poetics". Early Modern Literary Studies 12.2 (September, 2006) 2.1-38 .

A libertine, fantastically I sing.

Michael Drayton, Idea (1599)

The single function on which Venus frowned

Was birth: and, maybe, life has proved her right.

Daryl Hine, "Under the Hill" (1960)

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