" One of his sonnets describes "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang," and another claims "Love is not love /
One of his poems notes that the increase of men and plants is "Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky." Two longer poems dedicated to the Earl of Southampton respectively concern a woman given the "name of ‘chaste'," which "unhapp'ly set / This bateless edge on his keen appetite," and a man who "Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn." An excerpt from  one of his larger works provides the subtitle for Edward Albee's The Goat and asks, "What is she / that all our swains commend her?" One of his sonnets describes "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang," and another claims "Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds." For 10 points, name this author of The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis, whose song "Who is Silvia" is found in his play Two Gentlemen of Verona.
One of his poems notes that the increase of men and plants is "Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky.
William {Shakespeare}