Venus and Adonis
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When an earlier outbreak closed the theatres in 1593, Shakespeare wrote the poem Venus and Adonis.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 29, 2020
Venus and Adonis: Shakespeare’s Epic Poems Part 1 Radio-style show celebrates the poetry of the Bard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
A celebrated footnote about the boar that gores Adonis in Venus and Adonis gives a flavour of the whole:
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2018
The fourth man holds a fritillary and an ear of sweetcorn - plants which Griffiths says point to Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis and his play Titus Andronicus.
From BBC ● May 19, 2015
The tendency to the concrete was strong in Keats; he has been called, I think, an Elizabethan born out of due time; and Endymion, like Venus and Adonis, is a mythological story.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
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