Below is an example of an Elizabethan, or Shakespearean sonnet, written by hip-hop poet Devon Glover aka Sonnet Man, about the founding of Southern Shakespeare Company — try to have as much fun ...

For example, Venus and Adonis and Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594, and one of the articles of Shakespearean faith has been that they are “more youthful work” than the Sonnets.

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.

For example, in Sonnet 20, a male poet finds a young man beautiful. He champions his feminine qualities, referring to him as a “master mistress,” and talks about how the youth steals men’s ...

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 ...