William Basse
Basse's most famous poem is his "enormously popular sixteen-line elegy on Shakespeare":
Sonnet 86
Sonnet 86 is one of 154 sonnets first published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in the Quarto of 1609. It is the final poem of the Rival Poet group of the Fair Youth sonnets in which Shakespeare writes about an unnamed young man and a rival poet competing for the youth's favor. The exact date of its composition is unknown, it has been suggest that the Rival Poet series may have been written between 1598 and 1600.