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Ted Hughes: Venus and Adonis (and Atlanta)

Poem Title

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Venus and Adonis (and Atlanta)

Tales From Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, 1997

953-963

Relationship to Classical text Based on Ovid Metamorphoses 10.300-739

Comment  See also:

Shakespeare Venus and Adonis (1593) (A.B. Taylor (ed.); Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems, Cambridge, 2000.

'I had set myself against Latin': Ted Hughes and the Classics. Arion, 3rd Series, 13/3, pp. 131-61, J. Talbot, 2006, n. 27.