Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
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- Paperback
784 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2002
Summary
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Revisited.”
Wordsworth’s poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes, “Wordsworth’s poetry is great because of the extraordinary power with which he fe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759413 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375759417 |
| Author: | William Wordsworth, Mark Van Doren, David Bromwich |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 784 |
| Edition: | 2002nd |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2002 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 134mm x 44mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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Critics Review
“The poetical performance of Wordsworth is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton … undoubtedly the mostconsiderable in our language from the Elizabethan age to the present time.”—Matthew Arnold
About The Author
William Wordsworth
Mark Van Doren (1894-1973) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic who taught English at Columbia University for nearly thirty years.
David Bromwich is a professor of English at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including Disowned by Memory- Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s.
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