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Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

Shakespeare, William

Paperback

Series: Classic William Shakespeare

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1721155597
ISBN13: 9781721155590
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 14 2018
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, who is the goddess of Love, of her unrequited love, and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral, and at times erotic, comic, and tragic. It contains discourses on the nature of love, and brilliantly described observations of nature. It is written in a verse form known as sesta rima, which is a quatrain followed by a couplet (ABABCC). This form was also used by Edmund Spenser and Thomas Lodge. The poem consists of 199 stanzas or 1,194 lines of iambic pentameter.

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