While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a ...

To commemorate Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England announced a call to fine printers worldwide to reproduce all of his sonnets—154 in total.

And Shakespeare used this form for every single one of his 154 sonnets! But Shakespeare’s sonnets are not the only kind. Other sonnet forms include the Petrarchan sonnet, which uses a slightly ...

Like any good sonnet, it stands alone. But like a great many sonnets — most famously the 154 written by William Shakespeare — “my dreams, my works” is part of a sequence. Gwendolyn Brooks ...