1609 in poetry
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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
Title page of Robert Armin's The History of the two Maids of More-Clacke. The woodcut shows Armin onstage.
Shakespeare's sonnets
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William Shakespeare wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all togeth
Thomas Thorpe's edition of the sonnets (1609)
Dedication page from The Sonnets
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Sonnet 30 as a wall poem in Leiden