William Basse
Basse's most famous poem is his "enormously popular sixteen-line elegy on Shakespeare":
Sonnet 31
Sonnet 31 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. Developing an idea introduced at the end of Sonnet 30, this poem figures the young man's superiority in terms of the possession of all the love the speaker has ever experienced.