Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
A poem attributed to this man states that "truth and beauty buried be" and relates the ill-fated love between the two title birds. This author of "The Phoenix and the Turtle" wrote a long narrative poem that relates how Tarquin causes the title lady to commit suicide, entitled "The [*] Rape of Lucrece." This man is better known for a series of poems, many of which are addressed to the Fair Youth, who might have been the Earl of Southampton, or the Dark Lady, whose eyes are "nothing like the sun." For 10 points, name this Elizabethan writer whose 154 sonnets include one which begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
A poem attributed to this man states that "truth and beauty buried be" and relates the ill-fated love between the two title birds.
William {Shakespeare}