Lawrence’s Tortoises poems were first published as a group in New York in 1921, then included in the First English edition of Birds, Beasts and Flowers in 1923. This lovely Cheloniidae Press edition, edged in vellum over handmade paper-covered boards, is illustrated with eight wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Number 71 of 200 copies signed by the artist on the colophon page, it is in...
Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592–1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is a complex, kaleidoscopic work, using constantly shifting tone and perspective to present contrasting views of the nature of love.
As Adonis is preparing to go hunting, Venus "seizeth on his sweating...