SOURCE: "The Birth of the Bard: 'venus and Adonis' and Poetic Apotheosis," in Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 191-211.
In the following essay, Baumlin evaluates Shakespeare's transformation of his Ovidian source material in Venus and Adonis.
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