Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is a witty, almost cheeky 16th-century subversion of the typical love poem. Instead of placing his mistress on a pedestal with over-the-top comparisons, he chooses a ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

This clip is from the series Shakespeare Themes. Students could look at love poetry, find images within the poems and discuss what they show us about the idea of love. Are there different kinds of ...

This was the second scandal of Shakespeare’s life, because the Sonnets were love poems and were not written ... the evening of 22 April and into the morning of 23 April, 1616.