While flipping through 17th-century manuscripts at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, researcher Leah Veronese ...

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the professor who found it.

The poet introduces John Berryman and his sonnets: He made, a thousand years ago, a-many songs For an excellent lady, wif whom he was in wuv. Even after all those years (it's probably only twenty ...

AMES SHAPIRO, a Columbia University professor who is a William Shakespeare expert, on the finding of a variation of “Sonnet 116” that may have been in support of royalists trying to maintain England’s ...

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is ...

This poem appears to have been the first attempt that Burns made at sonnet writing. The sonnet, popularised in English by Shakespeare, is a fourteen-line poem. The subject matter is the verse form ...

At the very end of the war, two guys escape from school and make their way to the front. In the bustle of the train station, the fugitives lose each other - and soon one of them will have to take ...