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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780375759413
ISBN: 0375759417
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: February 12, 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: February 12, 2002
Sales Rank: 205246
Studio: Modern Library
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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] feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties.”
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Rating: - Thoughts that are too deep for tears
From time to time I return to reread Wordsworth. There is a spirit of calm and consolation, which combines with the sublime that makes his poetry especially soothing and uplifting. His poetry is sympathetic and understandable but also deeply reflective. The great odes 'Tintern Abbey' and 'Intimations of Immortality' seem truly to provide a sense of something 'more deeply interfused, a power whose dwelling is the light and living air'
Wordsworth is not doctrinal but he is a profoundly religious ... Read More
Rating: - Wandering lonely as a cloud
To me, poetry is like a swimming pool into which I have to dip my toe to test the temperature of the water before I jump in. I have to take it just a little bit at a time and allow myself to absorb it as well as enjoy it, and this volume of Wordsworth is something I find accessible and welcoming but challenging enough to engage my interest. Unlike his contemporaries of the Romantic movement like Blake and Byron who immersed themselves in wild fantasy and dark mythology, Wordsworth writes about things ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7
EAN: 9780375759413
ISBN: 0375759417
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: February 12, 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: February 12, 2002
Sales Rank: 205246
Studio: Modern Library