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A collection of critical essays on Williams and his works. Alsoincludes a chronology of events in his life.

A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

The language of Shakespeare's Sonnets, like that of poetry in general, is both highly compressed and highly structured. While most often discussed in terms of its images and its metrical and other formal structures, the language of the Sonnets, like that of Shakespeare's plays, also repays close attention to such basic linguistic elements as words, word order, and sentence structure. Shakespeare's words: Because Shakespeare's sonnets were written...