But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a famous ode to unceasing love.

In a sequence of sonnets a larger pattern of responses to a single intense emotion--invariably love--emerges. So it is with Berryman's sonnets. Recognizing that a sonnet sequence was just what he ...

Whatever the weather. The poetic form of the sonnet originated in the 13th century in Italy. It was originally intended as a way of expressing romantic love among the upper classes. Traditional ...

This project is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Major funding is also provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, Dana and Virginia Randt, the LuEsther ...