Sonnets

<p><i>&#145;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks </i><i>But bears it out even to the edge of doom&#146;</i><br><br>Sonnets are for romantics starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare&#146;s sonnets are the best ever written.<br><br>But this is why they are also for cynics for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. <br><br>Some of them are written to a young man some of them to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery &#150; why did Shakespeare write them what was his sexuality? &#150; each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love hate and the intensity of being alive.<br><br>Includes exclusive content: In the 'Backstory' you can find a short handy funny guide to everything you might want to know about Shakespeare and his sonnets.<br><br>&#145;This is a crazy all-consuming feverish and sweaty love; love in all its uncut full-strength intensity; an adolescent love&#146; Don Paterson <i>Guardian</i></p>