William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Actor, dramatist, and poet, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the most highly regarded writer in the English language. Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, including Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet. His epic narrative poems and 154 sonnets include some of the world’s most quoted lines.
POEMS
"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind"
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
Spring