Sonnets

All 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets in full, with clear analysis of the language, themes, and ideas — from the Fair Youth sequence to the Dark Lady poems.

Sonnets

Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

Sonnet 116 is not a love poem. It is a definition — and definitions, especially ones this carefully argued, are usually made under pressure.
Sonnets

Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold

Sonnet 73 describes the same thing three times in three different images — and each time, it is closer.
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