Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets go deeply—with wisdom, sympathy, rage, and sly humor—into the heart of countless human struggles and joys, as readers have kept discovering for more than 400 years.

Through close readings of a dozen poems, Robert N. Watson, a noted Shakespearian scholar, author, and poet, examines emotions ranging from nostalgia to depression, sexual desire to post-coital regret, and the art of writing a better love letter to the challenges of aging.