our list had to start with the Bard. While it is tough to pick a favorite work of William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18” is definitely a top contender. Not only is it one of the most famous poems ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library. It was hidden among the papers of Elias Ashmole, founder of the ...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a ...

Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces. But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a ...