Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Yeah.

I had a look at your translations of the poems and I was interested to seeing, I think it was the well-known sonnet 18, the Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? I think you eventually published in the book, at least, I think there were three translations of that one sonnet.

Were they done at different times or were they done at the same time? Or was this an example of that or not?

But of course, it all starts with Sonnet 18.

It's the first one you try to do.

And it's one of the most complex sonnets.

It's also the last one I changed.

The last one I corrected.

It is a technique Shakespeare perfected.

Sonnet 18, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, is probably the most famous.

a love poem comparing the beloved person to a beautiful season, but claiming that the person is even better, more perfect, immortalised through verse.

The final couplet argues that the beloved person will live forever through Shakespeare's lines, that the act of writing about someone preserves them eternally.