Excerpt from Poetry for the People: And Other Poems Poetical Literature has strong hereditary claims on your favour. The ingenious enquiries of modern criticism have left little doubt that the Mr. W. To whom Shakspeare dedicated and, for the most part, addrest his Sonnets, was Mr. William Herbert, the third Earl of Pembroke, his Friend and your Ancestor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.