Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. Shakespeare's Sonnets can be seen as a prototype, or even the beginning, of a new kind of "modern" love poetry. The Sonnets have great cross-cultural importance and influence. There is no major written language into which the sonnets have not been translated.