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1. The birth of the bard: Venus and Adonis and poetic apotheosis.

Author

Baumlin, Tita French

Subjects
*LITERARY style, *INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.), *SEVENTEENTH century, *HISTORY
Abstract

The article critiques the stylistic elements of the poem "Venus and Adonis," by William Shakespeare, particularly focusing on inconsistencies of tone, characterization and voice. It addresses Roman poet Ovid's narrative poem "Metamorphoses" as Shakespeare's principal source, the sensuous sophistication and humor of the poem, and literary scholar Hallett Smith's placement of the poem in the genre of Ovidian mythological-erotic poetry.

Published
1990