Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, and other poems

218 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 1888 by Harper.

OCLC Number:
48148997

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1 star (1 review)

Contains: Lover's Complaint Passionate Pilgrim Phoenix and the Turtle Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis

29 editions

Review of 'The Complete Sonnets and Poems' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Excluding the two major narrative poems:

Snooze. It's not bad, just boring. These days only two kinds of people genuinely like these; those who can cope with Love and the Moon poetry, which, thematically, has been losing ground on my attention since I became an adult and those who are obsessed with Shakespeare's life, biographical and/or psychological, who were satirised up to the eyeballs by Oscar Wilde. I don't have that obsession.

The best part is the epitaphs, which are at least witty.