Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-227) and index.
Shakespeare becomes a poet -- Shakespeare and the literary marketplace -- The art of poetry -- Shakespeare and Ovidian poetry -- Venus and Adonis -- The rape of Lucrece -- Shakespeare and the Elizabethan sonnet -- Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: 1 -- Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: 2 -- Various poems.
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This title provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece"; the "Sonnets"; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare.
Adonis-- In literature.
Lucretia-- In literature.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Poetic works.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Rape of Lucrece.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Venus and Adonis.
Venus-- In literature.
Lucretia-- In literature.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Poetic works.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Rape of Lucrece.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Venus and Adonis.
Adonis
Lucretia.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
Venus
Rape of Lucrece (Shakespeare, William)
Sonnets (Shakespeare, William)
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare, William)
Narrative poetry, English-- History and criticism.