Donne wrote some of the most accomplished poetry about love that the English language has to offer. More than mere songs of courtship, Donne's lyrics meditate on love in all its varied manifestations -- from its futility to its possibility, from its disappearance to its ability to grant unearthly

To speak of William Shakespeare is to speak of the infinite. Perhaps no other writer in history has mapped the human heart as thoroughly, as profoundly, as Shakespeare did. Even 400 years after his death, he lives on as we reinterpret his work, easily translating his words into contemporary contex