William Shakespeare (1564–1616), who needs no introduction on a poetry page, was considered the greatest English poet — and perhaps one of the greatest poets of any language — to put pen to ...

William Shakespeare was a Renaissance-era ... Much of what we know about Shakespeare comes from his published poems and ... a diary written by a Stratford Vicar 50 years after Shakespeare's death.

There have been a lot of writers since the 16th century. But there's only one Bard. William Shakespeare, who was born one of eight children 461 years ago on April 23, 1564, lived just 52 years.

William Shakespeare is one of the most revered English authors of all time, ... two long narrative poems and 1,700 new words and phrases leads us to wonder if a single individual could have generated ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...

If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding. It is not, by most accounts, a sexy poem. It is not exactly a ...

PEOPLE prefer poems written by artificial intelligence to works by famous writers like Shakespeare and Lord Byron, a study has found. Readers rated virtual verse as more emotional, creative and bea… ...

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised a few days later on 26 April 1564. ... In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare’s first poems, ...

Shakespeare seems to have been more interested in success on the stage than in seeing his words in print. In his lifetime, he published three books of non-dramatic poetry, but only about half of ...