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We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include a Shakespearean sonnet, so I’ll start with a lesser known one, Sonnet 106. In the poem, the bard compares the beauty of his lover to ...