Whatever the weather. The poetic form of the sonnet originated in the 13th century in Italy. It was originally intended as a way of expressing romantic love among the upper classes. Traditional ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a famous ode to unceasing love. Elias Ashmole, a 17th-century politician and collector John ...