In general, Shakespeare's poems, of course, cannot be compared with his brilliant dramas. But taken by themselves, they bear the imprint of an extraordinary talent, and if not drowned in the glory of Shakespeare the playwright, they could well have delivered and really brought the author great fame: we know that the scientist Mires saw in Shakespeare the poet of the second Ovid . But, in addition, there are a number of reviews of other contemporaries, talking about the “new Catullus” with great delight. Poems . The poem Venus and Adonis was printed in 1593, when Shakespeare was already known as a playwright, but the author himself calls it his literary firstborn, and therefore it is very possible that it was either conceived or partly even written in Stratford. There is also an assumption that Shakespeare considered the poem (as opposed to plays for public theater) a genre worthy of the attention of a noble patron and a work of high art. The sounds of the homeland clearly make themselves known .. The landscape vividly feels the local Middle English flavor, there is nothing southern, as required by the plot, before the spiritual gaze of the poet, undoubtedly, there were native paintings of the peaceful fields of Warwickshire with their soft tones and calm beauty. There is also a feeling in the poem of an excellent connoisseur of horses and an excellent hunter . The plot is largely taken from Ovid's Metamorphosis; in addition, much borrowed from Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis. The poem was developed with all the unceremoniousness of the Renaissance, but still without any frivolity. And this is mainly reflected in the talent of the young author, in addition to the fact that the poem is written in sonorous and picturesque verses. If the efforts of Venus to stir up desires in Adonis amaze the later reader with their frankness, at the same time they do not produce the impression of something cynical and unworthy of artistic description. Before us is a passion, real, frenzied, darkening reason and therefore poetically legitimate, like anything that is bright and strong. Much more mannered than the second poem, Lucretia, published in the following year (1594) and dedicated, like the first, to the Earl of Southampton .. In the new poem there is not only nothing loose, but, on the contrary, everything, as in the ancient legend, revolves on the most refined understanding of the quite conventional concept of female honor. Insulted by Sextus Tarquinius Lucretia does not consider it possible to live after the abduction of her marital honor and in the longest monologues she sets out her feelings. Brilliant but sufficiently tense metaphors, allegories and antitheses deprive these monologues of real feelings and give rhetoric to the whole poem. However, this kind of spraining during the writing of poems was very popular with the public, and Lucretia was as successful as Venus and Adonis. Booksellers, who alone at the time benefited from literary success because literary property for authors did not exist at the time, printed the publication behind the publication.[citation needed] During Shakespeare's lifetime, "Venus and Adonis" has survived 7 editions, "Lucretsia" - 5.