What is William Shakespeare's favorite poem?

Answer 1

Shakespeare's "Sonnet #18" is his most well-known poem:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Well today his most famous poems are his sonnets. The most famous of those is difficult to say, but I would say Sonnet 18, which begins with the now famous "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

In his time, however, his most famous poem would have been "The Rape of Lucrece". Epic poems of that type were of a higher standard, more likely to gain a writer a measure of recognition.

Answer 2

Shakespeare is dead, and so cannot have favourites. And since he left no indication while he was alive we don't even know whether he had a favourite then.

Answer 3

venus and adonis.