Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18): About the poem Sonnet 18 or “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is one of the most acclaimed of all 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. First published in 1609, Sonnet 18 is a typical English sonnet and one of the most famous …
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Ozymandias: about the poem Ozymandias is one of the most anthologized poems written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is a sonnet, first published in The Examiner in 1818. The next year, it got a place in Shelley’s collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems (1819). The sonnet is about the ruins of a statue …
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If Thou Must Love Me: About the poem If Thou Must Love Me is sonnet no.14 of the collection Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861). She was a major woman poet in the Victorian era (1830-1890) of English literature. Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of 44 love sonnets published in 1850. …
