First published 400 years ago, Shakespeare's sonnets might never have been put to press had it been left to the author to decide things. As Clinton Heylin, the author of the new book So Long as ...

Reading Shakespeare’s sonnets, ... But as Nature fell in love with her creation, she turned the woman into a man, “prick[ing] thee out for women’s pleasure.” ...

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.

Of the 154 sonnets published in 1609, we take here number 76, in which Shakespeare speaks of his verse and of that which, like love in humans and the sun in nature, is simultaneously old and new.

In his plays, Shakespeare created complex characters navigating universal issues. He additionally invented the Shakespearean sonnet, a 14-line classic poem form with a set structure and rhyme pattern.

The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day. As Dobson tells the Times , “The printed copy of Shakespeare’s sonnets was ...

Learn about the conventions of a sonnet, Shakespearean sonnets and Petrarchan sonnets, iambic pentameter and rhyme in this KS3 English BBC Bitesize article.

From there, “Sonnet Man” was born, an original persona who connects Shakespeare’s classical literature with modern day self-expression. Glover has worked extensively with Leon County Schools ...