<p>This is the first of a two-episode recording of “Hero and Leander,” by Christopher Marlowe -- read by Michael Ullyot. It covers the first of the poem's two parts, or Sestiads.</p>
<p>The text is from the Oxford University Press edition of *The Collected Poems* (2006), edited by Patrick Cheney and Brian J. Striar.</p>

This is the first of a two-episode recording of “Hero and Leander,” by Christopher Marlowe -- read by Michael Ullyot. It covers the first of the poem's two parts, or Sestiads. The text is from the Oxford University Press edition of *The Collected Poems* (2006), edited by Patrick Cheney and Brian J. Striar.

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