22-word love poem may look simple – but it's deemed one of best ever
The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...
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‘Politically Repurposed’ Copy of Famous Shakespearean Love Sonnet Discovered Inside a 17th-Century Poetry Collection
But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a famous ode to unceasing love. Elias Ashmole, a 17th-century politician and collector John ...
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Rare copy of famous Shakespeare love poem found
A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...
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A sonnet upon sonnets
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 ...
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Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
And experts are celebrating the discovery as an early example of the ways that Shakespeare ... “What was once a kind of erotic, playful love poem,” Professor Shapiro said, had “been ...