Project Gutenberg 2008-06-04 Public domain in the USA. 116 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Guizot, François 1787 1874 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, M. (François) Guisot, M. (François) Guizot, Monsieur (François) Guizot, François Venus et Adonis Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem) 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 written during the late 16th century. The poem is an exploration of love and desire through the mythological figures of Venus, the goddess of love, and Adonis, a beautiful young man who is indifferent to love. The work focuses on themes of unrequited love, beauty, and the inevitability of loss. In the poem, Venus passionately pursues Adonis, who prefers the thrill of hunting to romantic love. Despite her fervent advances, Adonis remains resistant and somewhat disdainful towards her affections. As the story unfolds, Venus pleads with Adonis to embrace love and warns him of the dangers he may face while hunting, particularly from the ferocious wild boar. Ultimately, he neglects her warnings, which leads to his tragic death at the tusks of the beast. Heartbroken, Venus transforms her grief into a flower that memorializes Adonis, symbolizing both the beauty and the fragility of love. The poem serves not only as a tale of love's bittersweet nature but also as a meditation on beauty and mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 72.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr Venus (Roman deity) -- Poetry Adonis (Greek deity) -- Poetry PR Text FR Poésie Category: Poetry Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: British Literature 97345 2025-08-10T12:46:52.172013 text/html 90705 2008-06-04T14:54:02 text/html 115320 2025-08-10T12:46:57.246996 application/epub+zip 113924 2025-08-10T12:46:54.896002 application/epub+zip 99754 2025-08-10T12:46:53.812031 application/epub+zip 241869 2025-08-10T12:46:58.967994 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 234390 2025-08-10T12:46:56.592010 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210079 2022-09-12T05:34:18.697178 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 89049 2025-08-10T12:46:51.799016 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 87294 2008-06-04T14:54:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20556 2025-08-10T12:46:59.119992 application/rdf+xml 15530 2025-08-10T12:46:54.292996 image/jpeg 3800 2025-08-10T12:46:54.051994 image/jpeg 35365 2008-06-13T12:14:30 application/octet-stream application/zip 36442 2008-06-13T12:14:30 application/octet-stream application/zip 117802 2025-08-10T12:46:52.182034 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia