Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
Author: William Wordsworth, Mark Van Doren and David Bromwich Series: Modern Library Classics
Edited by Mark Van Doren, this work has an introduction by David Bromwich.
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Edited by Mark Van Doren, this work has an introduction by David Bromwich.
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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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“"The poetical performance of Wordsworth is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton . . . undoubtedly the most considerable in our language from the Elizabethan age to the present time."-Matthew Arnold”
“The poetical performance of Wordsworth is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton . . . undoubtedly the most
considerable in our language from the Elizabethan age to the present time.”—Matthew Arnold
About the Author
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 Univer-sity and the author of numerous books, including Disowned by Memory- Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s.
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