Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Chapters: Shakespeare's sonnets, Emilia Lanier, Petrarch's and Shakespeare's Sonnets, Sonnet 116, Sonnet 64, Sonnet 59, Sonnet 144, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, Sonnet 73, Sonnet 29, Sonnet 60, Sonnet 138, Sonnet 147, Sonnet 35, Sonnet 53, Sonnet 54, Sonnet 65, Sonnet 36, Sonnet 87, Sonnet 20, Sonnet 30, Sonnet 18, Sonnet 133, Sonnet 46, Sonnet 145, Sonnet 130, Sonnet 55, Sonnet 42, Rival Poet, Mary Fitton, Sonnet 146, A Waste of Shame, Sonnet 26, The Portrait of Mr. W. H., Sonnet 23, Sonnet 151, Sonnet 58, Sonnet 33, Sonnet 128, Sonnet 88, Sonnet 22, Sonnet 25, Sonnet 21, Sonnet 129, Sonnet 24, Sonnet 17, Sonnet 31, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 37, Sonnet 16, Sonnet 40, Sonnet 99, Sonnet 67, Sonnet 62, Sonnet 43, Sonnet 69, Sonnet 19, Sonnet 76, Sonnet 47, Sonnet 94, Sonnet 123, Sonnet 77, Sonnet 97, Sonnet 115, Sonnet 28, Sonnet 10, Sonnet 66, Sonnet 39, Sonnet 135, Sonnet 93, Sonnet 121, Sonnet 27, Sonnet 32, Sonnet 154, Sonnet 63, Sonnet 141, Sonnet 104, Sonnet 153, Sonnet 98, Sonnet 105, Sonnet 91, Sonnet 127, Sonnet 56, Sonnet 117, Sonnet 51, Sonnet 111, Sonnet 134, Sonnet 83, Sonnet 102, Sonnet 109, Sonnet 107, Sonnet 122, Sonnet 113, Sonnet 96, Sonnet 57, Sonnet 50, Sonnet 44, Sonnet 90, Sonnet 106, Sonnet 112, Sonnet 114, Sonnet 86, Sonnet 82, Sonnet 108, Sonnet 79, Sonnet 78, Sonnet 101, Sonnet 126, Sonnet 80, Sonnet 119, Sonnet 41, Sonnet 95, Sonnet 45, Sonnet 38, Sonnet 61, Sonnet 85, Sonnet 84, Sonnet 89, Sonnet 49, Sonnet 52, Sonnet 48, Procreation sonnets, Sonnet 103, Sonnet 72, Sonnet 81, Sonnet 110, Sonnet 100, Sonnet 74, Sonnet 71, Sonnet 120, Sonnet 75, Sonnet 70, Sonnet 118, Sonnet 124, Sonnet 68, Sonnet 92, Sonnet 125, Sonnet 132, Sonnet 143, Sonnet 140, Sonnet 142, Sonnet 148, Sonnet 137, Sonnet 139, Sonnet 136, Sonnet 131, Sonnet 152, Sonnet 149, Sonnet 150, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Excerpt: Shakespeare's sonnets are 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. All but two of the poems were first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. Sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in a 1599 miscellany entitled The Passionate Pilgrim. The quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal. The first 17 sonnets, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are ostensibly written to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalise his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid. The publisher, Thomas Thorpe, entered the book in the Stationers' Register on 20 May 1609: Tho. Thorpe. Entred for his copie under the handes of master Wilson and master Lownes Wardenes a booke called Shakespeares sonnettes vjd. Whether Thorpe used an authorised manuscript from Shakespeare or an unauthorised copy is unknown. George Eld printed the quarto, and the run was divided between the booksellers William Aspley and John Wright. Dedication page from The SonnetsThe sonnets include a dedication to one "Mr. W.H.". The identity ...