An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare's sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. Explanatory notes and modern English ...

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is ...

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 25, No. 2, Apr., 1926 On The Chronology of Shakespeare's Sonne... On The Chronology of Shakespeare's Sonnets This is the metadata section. Skip to ...

People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more “beautiful” and easier to understand, a study has found. The Bard’s sonnets, as well as works by literary figures such as ...

With Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, she has collaborated extensively on Shakespeare's poems, co-editing a collection of essays (The Sonnets: State of Play) and commissioning poets to respond to the Sonnets ...

In contrast, the five lowest-rated poems were all real, including Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31 and Chaucer’s Rondel of Merciless Beauty. As an example, Lord Byron’s ‘A Riddle, On the Letter E ...