The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint"This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets. It contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. John Roe's introduction to the two long narrative poems examines their place within the classical and Renaissance European traditions, comparing Shakespeare's poetry with that of Ovid, Livy, Chaucer, Ariosto, Marlowe, and Daniel in the light of Neoplatonic influences and courtly style." "Some of these issues extend into the discussion of the various ways of reading The Phoenix and the Turtle. The Passionate Pilgrim is a miscellany of twenty sonnets and lyrics, containing only five poems which are certain to be Shakespeare's. John Roe analyses the interesting enigma of the publisher's role in preparing the collection and the conditions in which it was produced. Evidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover's Complaint is weighed. A reassessment of the much-debated question of the poem's genre concludes that it is best treated as a narrative in the 'complaint' mode."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Abbott Adonis Adonis's appears argument beauty blood blushing boar breast breath chastity cheeks cites cockatrice Collatine collation colour Compare Ven conceit connotes Copy-text dead death desire doth echo effect Elizabethan emendation Englands Helicon example expression eye of mind eyes face fair falchion false fear fire FO MSS foul gentle give grief hath heart heaven hendiadys honour idea kiss light lips live looks love's lover Lucrece Lucrece's lust Malone meaning metonymy mind Neoplatonic night noun ODEP Onions Ovid pale paradoxical passion perhaps periphrasis phrase play poem poem's Pooler poor Priam quoth reference Richard Barnfield seems sense sexual Shakespeare shame sighs sonnet sorrow soul stained stanza suggests sv sb sweet syllepsis Tarquin tears Tereus thee thine thou thought tion tongue transferred epithet Venus Venus and Adonis Venus's verb Weelkes weeping word wordplay wound