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375 Poems by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare's name is synonymous with many of the famous lines he wrote in his plays and prose. Yet his poems are not nearly as recognizable to many as the characters and famous monologues from his many plays.
1564–1616. Circa 1600, English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616). (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images) While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet.
Shakespeare published two long poems, among his earliest successes: Venus and Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece in 1594. These poems were dedicated to his patron the Earl of Southampton. Venus and Adonis was Shakespeare's first-published work.
William Shakespeare is considered to be one of, if not the, most important English-language writers of all time. His plays and poems are read all over the world.
While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early 19th century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditionally been pushed...
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold. Have from the forests shook three summers’ pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned. In process of the seasons have I seen,
William Shakespeare - The Complete Poems. NB: All poems are submitted to a permanent updating process in order to provide you with an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.
