Poetry

William Shakespeare

Poetry — This collection brings together William Shakespeare’s verse, from the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle, all 154 sonnets, and A Lover’s Complaint. The poems explore love, desire, beauty, time, betrayal, and poetry’s power against mortality. The Passionate Pilgrim is an anthology published under Shakespeare’s name that also includes poems by other writers.