{"id":"01KG8B56M29EG2K5PYMS5J9674","cid":"bafkreibiqpfj7aq7aa575qqbkraxgcmqkbempnaqku42yw4dphx77772vy","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiepilbkevh3tg3e2d22ob7ey6a3tb5nefchztktey2duyr6dqtyzq","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0159.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643971-gdntal7stnd","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0159.jpg","page_number":159,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":574263,"text":"criticism.\nLUCRECE\n23\na pedestrian piece\nof verse in\nthe\nseven-line\nstanza,\nfollowed\nSpenser's\npoem\nin\n15-91,\nand\nnext year\nthere\nappeared\nDaniel's\nComplaint\nof\n'Rosamond.\nThe\nuses\nto\nwhich\nShakespeare put\nDaniel's\npreceding experiment have\nalready\nbeen\nnoticed.\nShakespeare\nemployed\nthe\nstanza again\nin\nthe\nnarrative\npoem,\nA\nLover'^s\nComplaint^\nwhich\nwas\nfirst\npublished\nin\n16\no<)\nwith\nthe\nSonnets.\nThat\npiece\nwas\nprobably\nwritten very shortly\nafter\nLncrece.\nThough\nthe\npopularity\nof Lncrece\ndid not\nequal\nthat\nof\nVenus and\nJdonis^\nand\nthe\n^•olume passed\nthrough\nfewer\neditions\nduring\nand\nafter\nShakespeare's\nlifetime,\nits\nsuccess\non\nits\nappearance\nwas well\npronounced,\nand\nit\ngreatly\nadded\nto\nShake-\nspeare's reputation\namong\ncontemporary\ncritics.\nSome\nreaders,\nEarly\nlike\nFrancis\nMeres\nin\nhis\nPalladis\nTamia\n(if 98),\nthe\nanonymous\nauthor\nof the\nPilgrimage\nto\nParnassus^\nand\nRichard\nBarnfield\nin\nPoems\nin\nDivers\nHumour\ns.^\n1/98',\nfailed\nto\ndetect\nany\ndistinction\nbetween\nLucrece\nand\nits\npredecessor\nVenus\nand\nAdonis.\nBut\na\n^Q\\v\nobservers\nlike\nGabriel\nHarvey\nwere\nmore\ndiscriminating,\nand\npointed out\nthat\nwhile\nthe earlier\npoem\ndelighted\n<\nthe\nyounger\nsort\n',\nLucrece\npleased\n«\nthe\nwiser\nsort'/ Harvey\nwas\nindeed\ninclined\nto\nexaggerate\nthe\nserious\naspect\nof\nthe\npoem\nand\nto\nrank\nit\nwith\nHamlet.\nDrummond\nof\nHawthornden\nnoted\nthat\nhe\nread\nthe\npoem\nin\ni<Jo5,\nand\na\ncopy\nfigures in\n'\nAnd\nShakespeare\nthou,\nwhose hony-flowing\nvaine\n(Pleasing the\nWorld)\nthy Praises doth obtaine.\nWhose\nVenus\nand whose\nLucrece\n(sweete and\nchaste)\nThy name\nin fame's\nimmortall\nBooke\nhave\nplac't.\n^ Harvey's words\nran .—<■\nThe\nyounger\nsort\ntake\nmuch\ndelight in\nShakespeare's\nVenus and\nAdonis. But\nhis\nLucrece\nand tragedy\no^\nHamlet^ Princeof\nDenmarke,\nhave\nit\nin\nthem\nto please\nthe wiser\nsort'\nHarvey\nwro'te these\nwords about\ni\n^04. in\na\ncopy\nof\nSpeght's Chaucer of\ni\n^98.\nThey\nwere transcribed\nby\nGeorge\nSteevens\n(cf.\nVariorum\ned.,\ni8ii,\nvol.\nii,\np. 3^9).\nBut the\nvolumecontaining Harvey's\noriginal\ndraft\nbelonged\nto\nBishop Percy, and\nwas burnt in\nthe hre\nat\nNorthumberland House, London,\nwhich destroyed\nthe bishop's library","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.971Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:46.370Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.259Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}