Project Gutenberg 1997-09-01 Public domain in the USA. 1654 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Shakespeare's Sonnets the Project Gutenberg Shakespeare Team "Shakespeare's Sonnets" by William Shakespeare is a collection of 154 poems written in the late 16th century during the English Renaissance. This renowned work explores themes of love, beauty, time, and mortality, expressed through a series of lyrical reflections often directed toward a young man and a "dark lady." The sonnets’ intricate exploration of human emotion and the complexities of love makes this collection a profound contribution to the world of poetry. The opening of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" presents a series of meditations on the nature and consequences of beauty and procreation. In the initial sonnets, the speaker urges a young man to reproduce to preserve his beauty and legacy against the relentless passage of time. Shakespeare employs vivid imagery to illustrate the fleeting nature of youth and the importance of nurturing future generations as a means of defying death. Within these early poems, the interplay between self-love and the obligation to share one’s beauty with the world serves to set the tone for the subsequent exploration of love, desire, and the inherent struggles with time and mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English poetry Sonnets, English PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 147796 148892 2024-09-01T08:17:10.097541 2023-10-01T07:40:27.512928 text/html text/html 129436 2024-03-10T08:31:37 text/html 385835 2024-09-01T08:17:18.541497 application/epub+zip 393994 2024-09-01T08:17:11.853530 application/epub+zip 228044 2024-09-01T08:17:10.966499 application/epub+zip 405300 2024-09-01T08:17:22.563459 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 330151 2024-09-01T08:17:17.146485 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 226988 2022-09-13T01:07:18.594318 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 119978 119975 2024-09-01T08:17:09.501508 2023-10-01T07:40:26.897924 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 100231 2024-03-10T08:31:37 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16013 2024-09-01T08:17:22.733438 application/rdf+xml 19455 2024-09-01T08:17:11.073544 image/jpeg 3100 2024-09-01T08:17:11.017516 image/jpeg 269430 2024-09-01T08:17:10.119513 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia