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having been more alluded to than any other text that Shakespeare wrote.1 By any
standards Venus and Adonis was a success, and it is worth reminding ourselves—
especially given the tendency to award a greater precedence to the plays—that in
his
own time Shakespeare’s poems were held in the highest esteem and that, to his
contemporaries at least, the figure they praised