The Longer Poems

Four of the great playwright`s more in-depth poems include `Venus and Adonis,` which recounts the romance between the goddess of love and her handsome swain, `A Lover`s Complaint,` a narrative poem voiced by a seduced and abandoned woman, `The Phoenix and the Turtle,` an allegory concerning the death of ideal love, and `The Rape of Lucrece,` a narrative poem based on an ancient Roman legend.