Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Modern Edition, with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notes

Shakespeare's sonnets are among the best-known and most-loved poems in the English canon. Shakespeare excels at describing the subtleties of human emotion and tying together a string of familiar sentiments that we can all relate to, regardless of our backgrounds. He speaks to the universality of love and longing, revealing us all as subject to the temperate and inclement nature of desire.