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May. 2nd, 2010 04:36 amThe hare passage in Venus and Adonis seems to be the ancestor of the fox one in Thoreau's first published essay, which is in turn the ancestor of his Walden loon, which begets Frost's Demiurge and buck.
Hero and Leander is the precursor poem of Venus--obviously--and Shakespeare plays the outdoing game as persistently and bizarrely with it as Titus does with The Jew of Malta. But it's also probably the largest single influence on Romeo & Juliet and, hadn't noticed this before, on the play within a play in Hamlet.
Hero and Leander is the precursor poem of Venus--obviously--and Shakespeare plays the outdoing game as persistently and bizarrely with it as Titus does with The Jew of Malta. But it's also probably the largest single influence on Romeo & Juliet and, hadn't noticed this before, on the play within a play in Hamlet.
