 | Robert A. Logan - 2007 - 276 páginas
...Marlowe had read Venus and Adonis and that there was an influence from Shakespeare on Marlowe: Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove. Where Venus...disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis that before her lies. (11-14) The trouble with such an argument is, of course, that there is no other evidence in the poem... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 páginas
...the uncontested master of the love poem. His Hero and Leander, licensed for publication in 1593, has a grove Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please...disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis that before her lies. The light shines through Marlowe's abstract diction, very unShakespearean but right for what it wants... | |
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Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, that before her lies ; Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain, Made with the blood of wretched lovers... 
