01894cam a22003373u 4500 25694 UtSlPG 20260610133605.0 m cr n 260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PR Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Venus et Adonis Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2008 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem) Release date is 2008-06-04 Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Venus et Adonis" by William Shakespeare is a narrative poem published in 1593. Venus, the goddess of love, becomes infatuated with the beautiful young Adonis, who cares only for hunting. She pursues him relentlessly, attempting seduction while he resists her advances. When Adonis insists on hunting a dangerous wild boar despite Venus's warnings, tragic consequences follow. This erotic, comic, and pastoral work explores the nature of love and desire through 1,194 lines of verse, blending classical mythology with Shakespeare's vivid imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Venus (Roman deity) -- Poetry Adonis (Greek deity) -- Poetry Guizot, François, 1787-1874 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25694 66695 66695