06-05-2011, 05:55 AM
He was the bloke with the best agent, simple as that. While he certainly wasn't a bad writer, and is one of the great playwrights without doubt, his sonnets are... well, there's 154 of the bloody things and they're the only kind of poems he wrote, you'd think he'd have improved as time went on. Still, at least he didn't make up a woman to write them about like Petrarch.
It could be worse