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Apart from his plays and sonnets, Shakespeare wrote only three or four poems and some odd song lyrics. A couple of the poems are quite long and pretty well written and were really popular at the time, particularly one called Venus and Adonis. So why do people not know about it?
1. Long poems are not really popular things to read these days. There are a lot of classic long poems: The Iliad, Beowulf, The Inferno, Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queen etc. How many has the average person read?
2. And apart from never teaching long poems in schools, they would never, ever teach Venus and Adonis. Why? Because it's porn, that's why.
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What type of poetry was shakespeare most famous for?
William Shakespeare is best known for his sonnets. Shakespeare published a total of 154 sonnets. Sonnets contain fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme.
What works was Shakespeare famous for?
His plays and his sonnets. He is most famous for his sonnets 18 and 130 and his plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Julus Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear.
How many narrative epic poems did Shakespeare write?
Shakespeare wrote many sonnets and plays which is what he was most well known for. However, most historians credit him with writing five narrative poems.
Did Shakespeare write sonnets?
This is akin to asking whether the Pope is Catholic. Shakespeare is the second-most famous writer of sonnets in the world (after Petrarch).
Why do you still remember William shakespeare?
People remember Shakespeare because his plays are continuously being performed all over the place. And that is because there are many many people who love his plays and want to see them performed. Most actors also love playing in a Shakespeare play and getting to say those wonderful lines.
Who did Shakespeare dedicate most of his sonnets to?
Shakespeare made no formal dedication of his sonnets. The first publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets in 1609 contained an address by its publisher (evidently Thomas Thorpe) to a "Mr WH". For more on this matter read Who was Mr WH? at the link below.
How many plays and poems did Shakespeare write?
Shakespeare is generally credited with 38 plays, 3 long poems, 154 sonnets, and one or two other random pieces of verse. But these totals can be different in the opinions of different scholars, who argue about some of the more dubious attributions. According to some people who think he was Christopher Marlowe or the Earl of Oxford, he wrote more after the time of his death.
What genre of literature did shakespeare write?
He's most famous for his plays, but he also wrote sonnets and long narrative poems.
Which literary devices does Shakespeare use in the sonnets?
Most of them, at some time or another.
Has Shakespeare written the most sonnets?
No. Spenser and Wordsworth both wrote more.
What poetic forms do Shakespeare use?
Most of Shakespeare's poems are sonnets, but there are also long narrative poems written in couplets.
When were the sonnets first published?
Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in 1609, by the London printer Thomas Thorpe. Sonnets 138 and 144 had appeared earlier, in the 1599 anthology The Passionate Pilgrim. The fashion for sonnets lasted from about 1580 until the very early 1600's - and for those twenty years sonnets were as cool and hip as rap is today. So by publishing in 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets had missed the boom years. But there are many references to sonnets written by Shakespeare much earlier than this (and we can see from the subject matter of many of the sonnets that they must have been written long before they were published). So it looks like Shakespeare's sonnets were originally passed round by hand, and only published as an afterthought (after Shakespeare had already become the most famous living playwright).
