On March 21, beloved British actor Patrick Stewart shared a reading of William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” on Instagram. The 14-line verse, one of 154 composed by the English poet and playwright, ...

This poem appears to have been the first attempt that Burns made at sonnet writing. The sonnet, popularised in English by Shakespeare, is a fourteen-line poem. The subject matter is the verse form ...

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Long before he played the captain of the Enterprise-D or the sage leader of the X-Men, Sir Patrick Stewart was a longtime and Olivier Award-winning member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now Stewart ...

They are widely considered to be the most precious words ever written about love. Now for the first time Shakespeare's celebrated sonnets have been set to music and performed on a series of ...

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 Men ...

Pop Sonnets author Erik Didriksen has been writing poetry most of his life. "I grew up with a knack for rhyming," he says. "When I was little, I used to write my grandparents poems. There's a poem ...