What is Venus and Adonis?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Shakespeare-Venus-und-Adonis-1593.jpg|thumb|Title page, 1593]] '''''Venus and Adonis''''' is a long [[poem]] by [[William Shakespeare]]. It was published in 1593. It tells of Venus' love for Adonis, a mortal man. [[Category:Poems by William Shakespeare]] {{lit-stub}} [[Category:16th-century English poems]] [[Category:1590s books]]