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

I was very interested in strange forms of poetry, and I find the immured sonnet the most intriguing. A sonnet is a poem in English of 14 lines that can employ any of a number of formal rhyme ...

Oliver de la Paz’s poem is part of a series of “diaspora sonnets,” in which this one, along with others, create a whole, while each sonnet can still operate on its own. These sonnets don’t ...

“As I was leafing through the manuscript, the poem struck me as an odd version of Sonnet 116,” Veronese, a member of Oxford University’s English faculty, explained in a university statemen ...

The poem’s fourth line — “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang” — is, if not the outright winner, at least a strong contender for the best poetic line ever rendered in English. Sonnet ...

Here he has turned the Shakespearean sonnet upside-down. The poem begins with what is ordinarily the closing couplet, marking the brief starry-eyed apotheosis of a wedding. From there, the future ...

D r. 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 ...

On this World Poetry Day we caught up with young poet Sonnet Mondal who was recently invited at the 61st Struga Poetry Evenings Festival in Macedonia. Sonnet joined the league of stalwarts like ...

When I showed my friends the sonnet by ChatGPT, they called it “soulless and barren.” Despite following all the rules for sonnets, the poem is cliched and predictable. But is the average ...