Shakespeare's original opening was changed ... They transform the sonnet from a poem about romantic love to a powerful ...

Instead of celebrating eternal romantic love as Shakespeare intended in the poem, this revised version seemingly promoted ...

Your love and pity doth th’ impression ... world besides methinks are dead. William Shakespeare (1564–1616), who needs no introduction on a poetry page, was considered the greatest English ...

Instead of writing a series of love poems to a goddess-like female, as previous poets had done, Shakespeare’s sonnets express feelings of lust, mortality, infidelity and jealousy towards one of ...

When I looked in the catalogue (originally compiled in the nineteenth century) the poem was described, not inaccurately, as 'on constancy in love'—but it doesn't mention Shakespeare. I think the ...

But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a famous ode to unceasing love.

Though he was born centuries ago, we're still watching his plays and studying his works. And his words continue to resonate today.