Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets that were published and have survived into perpetuity. And that’s 154 sonnets that are so good that a lot of modern day sonneteers try to imitate them. The traditional Shakespearean Sonnet form has 14 lines comprised of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and one rhyming couplet (two-line stanza). read more
Sonnets by other Elizabethan poets are also included, Spenser, Sidney, Drayton and a few other minor authors. The poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt are also given, with both old and modern spelling versions, and with brief notes provided. read more