Shakespeare's Sonnets
William Shakespeare · 1609
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Description
William Shakespeare's sonnets came out in 1609 in a set of 154 poems. The first edition is still the most famed sonnet cycle in English. Most poems speak to a fair young man, and later ones to a dark lady.
The poems praise the youth's beauty and urge him to have a child. Time, age, and death press hard on love in line after line. Some sonnets turn sharp, jealous, or weary, yet the craft stays superb. Lines like summer's day comparisons live in the minds of millions. Scholars still debate who the two loved figures were.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | William Shakespeare |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1609 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 96824 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |