Procreation sonnets
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The term procreation sonnets is a name given to Shakespearean sonnets numbers I to XVII.
They are referred to as the procreation sonnets because they all argue that the young man, to whom they are addressed, should marry and father children, hence, procreate. Throughout the procreation sonnets, Shakespeare usually argues that the child will be a copy of the young man, and he will therefore live through the child.
The actual historical identity of the man to whom they were written is a mystery, but most believe it was Henry Wriothesley (W.H. backwards), or William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. If the latter, it has been suggested that the 17 sonnets correspond in number to Herbert's age at the time.
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