'Shakespeare's First Published Work - 1st Edition of Venus and Adonis', 1593, (1946). Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), written between 1592?1593, with a plot based on The Metamorphoses a latin narrative poem by Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17/18). From English Printed Books, by Francis Meynell. [Collins, London, 1946]