Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus
Edward's two known poems concern characters who all feature in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses. Cephalus and Procris are a romantic couple. Narcissus famously fell in love with his own reflection.
Edward's poems were published as a single volume in 1595; Cephalus and Procris is in couplet form, Narcissus in a seven-line stanza. In the first poem Edwards appears to be imitating Marlowe, and in the latter Shakespeare.
The author concluded each work with a long postscript; in Narcissus this includes, using aliases, references to other poets including: Amintas (Thomas Watson); Collyn (Edmund Spenser); Leander (Christopher Marlowe); Rosamond (Samuel Daniel) and Adon (Shakespeare). A mysterious poet "in purple robes" praised at the end of the list has not been convincingly identified.
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