Download or read book Who Will Believe My Verse? written by James Leyland and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small volume of 154 short poems entitled 'Shake-speares Sonnets' published in 1609 has mystified readers for centuries. Why are they so cryptic? Some scholars have felt that they are in some way autobiographical, while others have viewed them as abstract poetical exercises. Part of the problem is that we know so little about the life of the writer.