The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare

"The Passionate Pilgrim" by William Shakespeare is an anthology published in 1598 or 1599. This collection of 21 poems appeared under Shakespeare's name, yet only five are considered authentically his—including two sonnets and three excerpts from "Love's Labour's Lost." Publisher William Jaggard controversially attributed works by other poets to Shakespeare, later adding poems by Thomas Heywood without permission. The anthology sparked protests and forced revisions, revealing the murky world of Elizabethan publishing and questions of authorship that persist today. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title The Passionate Pilgrim
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passionate_Pilgrim
Credits the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Category Text
EBook-No. 1544
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Most Recently Updated Sep 19, 2025
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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