Of this group of poetry the poems written as part of William Shakespeare's sonnets are considered to epitomize the height of the English sonnet.... During the 19th century a movement began that ultimately would change the syntax and them of poetry. in his 1802 preface to the Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth railed against the artificial poetic diction found in the sonnets and declared his intentions to write "in a selection of language really used by men"(qtd in Where the Arts live n. pag.). ... The initial pioneers of the movement were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady an...

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