This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality' published by Manchester University Press. It is about the way Adonis is used as a symbol for literary immortality conferred through poetic imitation, in the minor genre of lament for a fellow poet which originates in the 'Lament for Bion', tracing its influence through Statius and Spenser to Shelley's 'Adonais'.
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