The poems
Subtitle: Venus and Adonis, the Rape of Lucrece, the Phoenix and the turtle, the Passionate pilgim, a Lover's complaint
By: edited by John Roe.
Contributors: Roe, John
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780521855518; 9780521671620
Subjects: Lucretia -- Poetry; Venus (Roman deity) -- Poetry; Adonis (Greek deity) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "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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