No writer compares to Shakespeare. And there is no collection of poems quite like his sonnets. Over the centuries, Shakespeare’s words have inspired, delighted and captivated.
Perhaps even more important, though, over the course of the 154 sonnets, the bard is thought to have captured on the page that reigning queen of emotion: Love. It’s hard to imagine the literary landscape without the first two lines of sonnet number eighteen: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” In the first of a two part series on the poetry of love, we consider three of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Guests:
Michael Gearin Tosh, fellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford Univeristy, and author of “Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny.”