Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces. But the collection’s most ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a ...

This poem appears to have been the first attempt that Burns made at sonnet writing. The sonnet, popularised in English by Shakespeare, is a fourteen-line poem. The subject matter is the verse form ...

LONDON — If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding. It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem. It is not ...

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 ...

Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces. But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a ...