While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a handwritten copy of a sonnet by William Shakespeare dating back nearly 400 years.

This poem is also the opposite of ... But like a great many sonnets — most famously the 154 written by William Shakespeare — “my dreams, my works” is part of a sequence.

Here the poem usually shifts mood or focus ... And Shakespeare used this form for every single one of his 154 sonnets! But Shakespeare’s sonnets are not the only kind. Other sonnet forms ...

While flipping through 17th-century manuscripts at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, researcher Leah Veronese ...