In the poem, the bard compares the beauty of his lover to ancient poems that described beautiful knights and ladies. He declares that these older writers must have been prophets to know his lover’s ...

She's the author of Don't Read Poetry — a book about how to read poems. Her latest poetry collection is After Callimachus. Twm Morys is a poet and musician.

Fallen cold and dead. This poem will be instantly recognizable to fans of the 1989 film Dead Poets Society —in fact, “O Captain! my Captain!” is one of the most memorable quotes from the movie.

Books Poems on gun culture, solar eclipse win 2018 Shakespeare Selfie student writing challenge CBC Books · Posted: Apr 27, 2017 1:02 PM PDT | Last Updated: February 21, 2019 ...

Leontia Flynn I never really got over reading Shakespeare’s sonnets. I thought they would be pretty and instead discovered one man’s neurotic inner monologue annotated over 154 poems.

Reading Shakespeare can feel like decoding a secret language. The words are strange, the sentences are twisted, and sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s insulting whom. But with a few smart ...

Dr Veronese said she thought the changed first line and the lack of mention of Shakespeare were the reasons "why this poem has passed un-noticed as a copy of Sonnet 116 all these years".