The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day. As Dobson tells the Times, “The printed copy of Shakespeare’s sonnets was ...

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.

To commemorate Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England announced a call to fine printers worldwide to reproduce all of his sonnets—154 in total.

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

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 ...