Hero and Leander

…nondramatic work includes the poem Hero and Leander. This work was incomplete at his death and was extended by George Chapman: the joint work of the two poets was published in 1598.

…Marlowe for his narrative poem Hero and Leander (1598) and by John Donne in the early 17th century for his satires, his elegies, and his longer meditative poems. Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), first introduced into English in a translation by Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, published in 1557, became…