Shakespeare's sonnets and John Done's songs & sonnets

William Shakespeare was one of the world's most renowned playwrights the Renaissance period provided to the cultural life. John Donne was as well an important writer of the 17th century that addressed issues such as love, death, duty, in his work through different perspectives.

Taking into account a common theme such as love can do a comparison of the two poets Shakespeare and Donne can be done. This subject was a recurring theme for the period and there have been many perspectives on the matter.

An important source of analysis for the way in which Shakespeare dealt with love and his views on it are the sonnets the poem wrote especially during the period of the beginning of the 17th century. There have been different stages of creation that provide different themes. However, one of the most important "characters" of Shakespeare's sonnets...
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