The Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 creator text utu 1997 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Sonnets" by William Shakespeare is a collection of poems written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This celebrated work includes 154 sonnets, among them a mysterious sequence addressed to the "Dark Lady"—a woman described with black hair and dark skin who inspires overtly sexual verse. Unlike the spiritual devotion expressed toward the Fair Youth, these poems explore passionate, physical desire. Scholars have long debated whether the Dark Lady was a real person or purely Shakespeare's artistic creation, with various historical figures proposed but none definitively proven. (This is an automatically generated summary.) There is an improved edition of this title, eBook #1041 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lady_(Shakespeare) Release date is 1997-11-01 Original publication data not identified English poetry Sonnets, English PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1105 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1105 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133040.0 1105