Many books are available in the market on this topic. In my opinion, Shakespeare’s Sonnets of Arden Shakespeare series is the best. It is edited by Katherine Duncan Jones and published by Bloomsbury. read more
Perhaps the most famous of all the sonnets is Sonnet 18, where Shakespeare addresses a young man to whom he is very close. It would be impossible to say whether Shakespeare was an arrogant man because we don’t know what he was like. read more
Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets. A sonnet is a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern. In Shakespeare's sonnets, the rhyme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg, with the final couplet used to summarize the previous 12 lines or present a surprise ending. The rhythmic pattern of the sonnets is the iambic pentameter. read more