The Unbegotten Sonnets?

Clinton Heylin thinks that Shakespeare never intended his sonnets to become public . . .

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1

From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,But as the riper should by time deceaseHis tender heir might bear his memory:But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,Making a famine where abundance lies,Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.Thou that art now the [...]