Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

Guest columnist Beth Ann Fennelly analyzes Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 for its enduring relevance. The sonnet describes a speaker's journey from self-pity and envy to finding joy through love. Shakespeare ...

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 ...

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) figured significantly in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Though prominent as a diarist, journalist, and activist for ...

"I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V)" was published in the 1635 edition of John Donne's work "Poems." John Donne was born on Jan. 22, 1572, in London. He is known as a major ...

Oliver de la Paz’s poem is part of a series of “diaspora sonnets,” in which this one, along with others, create a whole, while each sonnet can still operate on its own. These sonnets don’t have all ...

Batter my heart, three person’d God, for you As yet but knock breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), whom W. B. Yeats called “the handsomest young man in England,” endures in our cultural imagination as poster boy for the generation of poets lost to the First World War.