The complete online text of Sonnets by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo considered by some art scholars to be the greatest sculptor and draftsman of all time, was one of the leading figures of the Italian Renaissance. Though there are many treasures dating from the sixteenth century that bear evidence to his tal...

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was the greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance and one of its greatest painters and architects. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, a village where his father was briefly serving as a F...

The Northborough Sonnets are so named because they were written in the troubled years John Clare spent at Northborough between 1832 and 1837, by which time he had fallen into pitiful mental disrepair and agreed to have enlightened treatment by a Doctor Matthew...

Seven poets wrote the following sonnet crown in a correspondence over email that lasted several months. As we discussed publication, we decided that to identify who wrote which portion would counter the collaborative nature of our project (although an enterprising reader might...

NEW YORK FASHION By Sonnet Stanfill Victoria and Albert Museum, 128 pages, $55 Suffering for fashion is now as obsolete as some of New York City’s corporate fashion houses. In New York Fashion, the companion volume for an upcoming exhibit at the Victoria...

Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the "concrete poetry" movement, has died. She was 86.Solt died June 21 in Santa Clarita after a stroke, her family said.Her most popular work,...