...show it to have been a general favourite. Meres, in his Wit's Treasury, 1598, speaks of it thus : " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...sweet, witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and boneytongued Shakespeare : witness his Venus and Adonis, bis Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his...

...John," and " Eomeo and Juliet" among the number ? 1 Now it is to be borne in mind that Meres, from 1 " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...Shakespeare. Witness his ' Venus and Adonis'; his ' Lucrece'; his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. As Flautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...

...furnished. Long before the publication of " Hamlet," he merited and received this published tribute : " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare." It is not without profit, certainly not without pleasure, that we may trace the parallels of the thought...

...soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras," said Francis Meres, in his Palladis Tamia, " so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare." Shakespeare is another of our poet's reincarnations. There is hardly an aspect of Ovid's genius and...

...contemporary literature published in 1598 Francis Meres said Shakespeare was a reincarnation of Ovid: 'As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...Shakespeare; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends.'33 The first book he published, and, according to him,...

...especially in challenging Marlowe as rightful heir to Ovid. When Francis Meres recorded in 1598 that "the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous...Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugered Sonnets among his private friends" it appears that as far as contemporary literary historians...

...he is one of the privileged few who have read them. (Compare Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia (1598): 'the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous...Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc.') We must not forget, of course, that The Passionate...

...very same spread on which he listed Shakespeare's plays, and now referring to Shakespeare's Sonnets: As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends Even though we must avoid assuming that the sonnets mentioned...

...Greek mythology and a lifelong love of Ovid and the Metamorphoses; a contemporary critic claimed that 'the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare'. Mythological and Ovidian allusions are frequent in the early plays, rarer and subtler in the later...

...invocation Ovid wrote for his Medea (Metamorphoses 7.197 ff.). Indeed, in 1598 Francis Meres could write, "The sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare"; but Ovid was so much the presiding genius of Elizabethan poetry that contemporaries also termed Chapman,...