Venus and Adonis by Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis is a poem written by William Shakespeare. It is a story about the Greek goddess of love and her attraction to a man on Earth. Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem, or a poem that tells a story, written by William Shakespeare from 1592-1593. It consists of 1,194 lines and is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, a piece with contrasting views about the nature of love. The story is set in ancient Greece during the age of mythology, when the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus interacted with earthly humans.