Shakespeare\'s sonnets have an intensity of feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love, while the second chronicles his love for the notorious \'Dark Lady\'.In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes Shakespeare\'s two lengthy narrative poems on classical themes, \'The Rape of Lucrece\' which looks forward to th...