SONNETS are where old professors go to die," Robert Bly once wrote. Yet this new anthology shows the sonnet is alive and well. Four hundred fifty years old this year, the poetic form has survived ...

We are unable, therefore, to lament, with Mr. S. Adams Lee, the surviving editor (as. with a curious misconception of the facts, ho calls himself) of “ The Book of the Sonnet,” that American ...

The sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references “obvious to an historian.” “Mortal moon,” for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth.

4. Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” Many of Shakespeare’s most famous monologues open with emblematic opening lines that serve as points of departure for argument.

Each of Henri Cole’s sonnets is a little workshop of language. “Gravity and Center” compiles almost 130 of them selected from five books over nearly 30 years, plus a handful of new ones ...

Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure ...

Publishing a book of sonnets, of course. What writer wouldn’t do just that as a follow-up to fame? He already has the literary world envious of his virtuosity, and now he goes all Shakespeare on us.

Henri Cole, the American poet, who will be reading from his new collection “Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets 1994-2022” at Stonington Free Library on Sunday, Oct. 8, wrote this in the book ...