William Basse
Basse's most famous poem is his "enormously popular sixteen-line elegy on Shakespeare":
Sonnet 41
Sonnet 41 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a part of the Fair Youth section of the sonnets addressed to an unnamed young man. While the exact date of the composition is unknown, it was originally published in the 1609 Quarto along with the rest of the sonnets.