[DOC] [TLE] Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem) - Wikipedia [PAR] Venus and Adonis appeared in print before any of Shakespeare's plays were 
published, but not before some of his plays had been acted on stage. It has a lot 
in... [DOC] [TLE] Publishing Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library [PAR] Publication history of Shakespeare's plays, from early quartos through ... of his 
plays had ever been printed, in small one-play editions called quartos. ... Poems | 
Early quartos | The First Folio | Later editions | A variety of forms ... digital image 
collection, as well as the 1593 Venus and Adonis and the 1594 Rape of Lucrece. [DOC] [TLE] William Shakespeare - Poet | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org [PAR] The son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, he was probably educated at the 
King ... to whom he dedicated his first two poems, Venus and Adonis (1593) and 
The ... were composed between 1593 and 1601, though not published until 1609. 
... but in 1596, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, his second tragedy, and... [DOC] [TLE] Shakespeare's Patron - The Earl of Southampton [PAR] Exploring Shakespeare's relationship with his patron and possible subject of the 
fair ... and accepted the poet's dedication of the "Venus and Adonis" in 1593, and 
in the ... he has made, but it is somewhat strange that no other non-dramatic work
, ... however, a very late tradition, and was first published by Rowe in 1709. [DOC] [TLE] William Shakespeare - Poetry Foundation [PAR] Yet the study of his nondramatic poetry can illuminate Shakespeare's activities as 
... reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. ... 
Shakespeare's first publication, Venus and Adonis (1593), was dedicated to the 
.... Unlike Venus and Adonis, Lucrece is not set in a mythical golden age, but in a
... [DOC] [TLE] The Life of William Shakespeare (15641616) | Shakespeare in ... [PAR] He did not continue his formal education at university, nor did he come under the 
... in 1593 because of the plague, the playwright wrote two narrative poems, 
Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and probably began writing his ... 
published, though he did not live to see the First Folio of his plays published in 
1623. [DOC] [TLE] Venus and Adonis - Dictionary definition of Venus and Adonis ... [PAR] Venus and Adonis 1593. INTRODUCTION PLOT SUMMARY CHARACTERS ... at 
nearly twelve hundred lines, the poem is fully two-thirds the size of his shortest 
play, .... Adonis indeed runs off, and Venus chases him, but he is eventually ..... 
Shakespeare's poem is worth examining not only as an individual work but also... [DOC] [TLE] Venus and Adonis, first edition | Shakespeare Documented [PAR] It was printed almost twice as many times as his most successful play Henry ... 
first heire of my inuention, a recognition that it was his first published work. ... but 
would later transfer the rights to Venus and Adonis to Harrison, on June 25, 1594. 
... English poetry, he also claimed that I do not at all repent my bargain, since... [DOC] [TLE] First recorded purchase of Shakespeare's first printed work: Venus ... [PAR] Diary of Richard Stonley [manuscript], May 14, 1593 to May 24, 1594 .... first 
printed work, the narrative poem Venus and Adonis (London, 1593). ... Stonley's 
copy of Venus and Adonis does not survive, but other books of his do. ... edition 
of Samuel Johnson and George Steeven's The plays of William Shakespeare (
London,... [DOC] [TLE] WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PLAYS [PAR] Educational resource with full text of all of William Shakespeare Poems. ... He is 
the most widely read author in the whole of the Western World - his poems and 
quotes from poems ... The Bard did not give permission for one of his plays or his 
sonnets to be published. ... April 18, 1593 Registration of Venus and Adonis 
Poem [DOC] [TLE] Shakespeare Resource Center - Shakespeare's Poetry [PAR] The Sonnets; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of

Question: In 1593 he published his first work, not a play but a poem called "Venus and Adonis"
Answer: William Shakespeare