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Poetry · 1609

Sonnets

William Shakespeare

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Poetry · 1609 · English · Renaissance

Sonnets

William Shakespeare

154 sonnets to a fair youth and a dark lady.

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A sequence about the failure of praise: the poems keep promising immortality while documenting decay, self-disgust and the humiliations of loving.

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