Venus & Adonis : one of the two narrative poems ascribed to Shakespeare
... yet in a half-developed state, crude consistence not yet fashioned with the masterly touch he soon manifested, but Kalidasa is there quite as evidently as Shakespeare in his earlier work, the Venus and Adonis or Lucrece. Defects which the riper Kalidasa avoids, are not uncommon in this poem,—repetition of ideas, use of more words than are absolutely required, haphazard recurrence of words and phrases ...
... Keats is poetic and Homer and Virgil are not. The rich style has this danger that it may drown the narration so that its outlines are no longer clear. This is what has happened with Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Lucrece; so that Shakespeare cannot be called a great narrative poet. How did you find Monomohan Ghosh's poems on Love and Death? I don't remember anything about them and am not sure ...
... Keats is poetic and Homer and Virgil are not. The rich style has this danger that it may drown the narration so that its outlines are no longer clear. This is what has happened with Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Lucrece ; so that Shakespeare cannot be called a great narrative poet. 13 July 1937 As narrative poetry and epic are not the same, why should the former give me a training in the ...
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