Shakespeare penned 154 sonnets in his lifetime. Likely written sometime in the 1590s, the majority of the poems were first published in a 1609 work titled Shake-Speares Sonnets. The first 126 of the 154 sonnets are addressed to a young man whose identity has long intrigued scholars. The publisher, Thomas Thorpe, wrote a dedication to the first edition in which he claimed that a person with the initials WH had inspired the sonnets. What are some theories about who the man might have been? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst16218_-i-Shake-Speares-Sonnets--i--First-Published--1609-.aspx)
Source: First Published (1609) (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Shakespeare's+sonnets)