A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

"As I was leafing through the manuscript, the poem struck me as an odd version ... works from the 1640s - the decade of the English Civil War, fought between Royalists and Parliamentarians.

the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or ...

“What was once a kind of erotic, playful love poem,” Professor Shapiro said, had “been repurposed to speak to people in the midst of a civil war — in which their loved ones are fighting ...