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

A LECTURER at University of Limerick has translated William Shakespeare’s sonnets into Irish using iambic pentameter. Dr Sorcha de Brún, UL lecturer in Modern Irish Language and Literature ...

It is thought Shakespeare also wrote most of his sonnets at this time. Shakespeare was prolific, with records of his first plays beginning to appear in 1594, from which time he produced roughly ...

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...

Playwrights Lauren M. Gunderson and Sarah Mantell are reimagining supporting characters from “Hamlet” and “The Merchant of ...

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

A sonnet is a 14-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter ... an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, like William Shakespeare. The word sonnet, derived from the Italian word ...

Jane Macdougall is a freelance writer and former National Post columnist who lives in Vancouver. She writes The Bookless Club ...