Shakespeare's Sonnets

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the bulk of the sonnets the writer professes to describe his infatuation with a beautiful youth and his wrath with a disdainful mistress, who alienates the boy's affec tion and draws him into dissolute courses. But any strictly literal or autobiographic interpretation has to meet a for midable array of difficu ...