Shakespeare's Sonnets

Title page, 1609

Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. The collection was first published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe. In general, each sonnet is in iambic pentameter, and consists of three quatrains followed by a concluding couplet. The sonnets are about love, death, jealousy, procreation, beauty, etc.

Shakespeare's Sonnets Media

Dedication page from The Sonnets
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
Sonnet 30 as a wall poem in Leiden

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