Sir Ian McKellen reads 14 sonnets to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's sonnets on 20 May 2009. You can listen online to each of the ...
I n a bid to express emotions, feelings and ideas, poets have for ages used various verse forms and continue to do so to this day. Among these various forms, the sonnet is one that has maintained an ...
The sonnet was probably invented by Giacomo da Lentini, a Sicilian, and popularized by poet Francesco Petrarca (see Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ...
Shakespeare’s sonnets are considered some of the literary genius' most popular works, with some - such as Sonnet 18’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day” - becoming the best-known works in ...
While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a ...
The mind wants to breathe, to be free. It craves unobstructed views: of oceans, forests, deserts, mountains. It longs for the timbre of soft wind, the bird’s pirouette in calm blue skies. To breathe, ...
Researchers have revealed an AI that they hope will one day write a perfect Shakespearean sonnet. Researchers at IBM used created a sonnet writing AI. They trained it using 2600 sonnets taken from a ...
The poem was discovered by researcher Leah Veronese. University of Oxford While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a ...