Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: “his first work (the translation of Shakespeare's Sonnets) was the outcome of a bet with a fellow officer”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “Rowse, who had only recently unburdened himself of a new gay theory of the origin and dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets...”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's Sonnets are a perpetual refreshment in the pleasures of change in meaning, each time we reread.”