Elegy of Love Lost: A Divorced Husband’s Sonnets by E.P. Lane

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare shared an eternal truth: The course of true love never did run smooth.

Such is true for poet and novelist E.P. Lane, whose own experience with love encompassed both triumphant highs and tumultuous lows before ultimately succumbing to the untimely frost of separation and divorce.

In Elegy of Love Lost, Lane takes us on a journey through his star-crossed marriage. Using the structure of Shakespeare’s immortal poetry, he presents a collection of over 150 carefully crafted sonnets that invite us to both celebrate and lament a love that wasn’t meant to last forever.

From the first flush of attraction to the final furlong of separation, poetry allows Lane to share his experiences with uncommon authenticity. Using a language of love kept alive by generations of scholars, actors, poets and lovers, Lane lets us experience the spark of first attraction, the cold winter of infidelity, and all the seasons in between.

Unique, timeless, and achingly relatable, Elegy of Love Lost: A Divorced Husband’s Sonnets demonstrates why the power of Shakespeare’s poetry remains relevant even four centuries after his death – and why the experience of love still persuades the eyes of men even without a happily-ever-after.