Shakespeare's Most Enigmatic Poem
from Talk Write Hosted by Brandon Cook
Among Shakespeare’s least-read works are his early, long poems: Venus and Adonis (1593), and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), and “The Phoenix and the Turtle” (1601). The last poem remains deeply enigmatic. What can it teach us today? And what sort of light does it shed on the rest of Shakespeare’s work? Get full access to Talk Write at brandoncookwriter.substack.com/subscribe
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