Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18 is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Frank W. Wadsworth
Wadsworth was probably best known to the public for his "The Poacher from Stratford" (1958), a popular defense of Shakespeare’s authorship and the first such book written by an academic Shakespearean scholar. He thought that Shakespeare scholars should not dismiss the claims of those who believe that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the canon, and that treating the subject with silence worked instead to encourage rather than discourage such theories. Thirty-five years later he reviewed the field in an article published in the "Shakespeare Newsletter", "The Poacher Re-Visited," in which he wrote: