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- VENUS AND
ADONIS
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worked
up
some
vitalizing
conceptions
which
were
derived
from
the
Italian
poets.
Long
before
he
wrote,
foreign
writers
had
elaborated
the
simple
classic
myth
in narrative
verse
which
closely
anticipated his
own
in
shape
and
sentiment.
Most
of the
varied
influences
which
moulded
Shake-
speare's poetic
genius,
indeed,
find
a
first
reflection in
Venus
and
Adonis,
In
it,
recent
impressions of
the
country
life
of
Warwickshire
seem
to
be
fused,
not
merely with
schoolboy
devotion to
Ovid
and
youthful enthusiasm
for the new
birth
of English
poetry,
but with genuine
appreciation
of the
taste
and
feeling
which
the
Renaissance
had
generated
in
all
cultivated
minds
of
Western
Europe. On
foundations
ofFered
by
the
novels
of
Italy
and
France—
some
of
the
most
characteristic fruit
of
Renaissance
literature-
Shakespeare
at
the
height
of
his
powers
reared
many
of
his
best-known
plays. The
same
elements
of literary
sustenance,
the
same
force
of
literary
sympathy, which
fed the
stream'
of Shakespeare's genius
in
its
maturity, seem,
in
the eye ofthe careful student,
to
course
in
embryo
through
Venus
ana
Adonis^
<
the
first
heir
'
of
his
invention.
II
Critics of Venus and Adonis hardly seem conscious
of
the
Distribution
fact that
the
story
of
Venus
and
Adonis engaged
the
attention
°^'^*'
"°^-
of poets in
Italy,
France, and
Spain,
as
well
as
of
England,
both
before
and
after
Shakespeare approached
the
theme.'
The
extent
to
which Shakespeare was acquainted with
the
preceding foreign
efforts
may
be
difl5cult to
appraise, but that
^
J. P. Collier strangely wrote o{
Venus and
Adomssiyily
years ago :
<■
It
was
notHn'^'Tr
•!'
t'^ri ^'^"^ ^"^^'^
°°
"° "^°^^1
either
ancient
or
modern
;
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^^^^^^' ^"^ "°^^-^^
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to
it'
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