Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
Author: first_name: Phineas
last_name: Fletcher
first_name: Edmund
last_name: Spenser
Language: English
Year: 1873

While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's <i>Aeneid</i>.  The poem is an epyllion like Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis," a short erotic poem with a mythological subject.  The style is Spenserian, the stanzas rhyming ababbccc.<br /><br />
When Brittain's Ida was published in 1628, the publisher ascribed it to Edmund Spenser. Howev