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Wordsworth
- Author
- William Wordsworth
- Narrator
- Frederick Davidson
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 8 March 2012
- Run Time
- 3 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry
What to expect
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped launch the romantic age in English literature. These poems demonstrate the astonishing range and beauty of Wordsworth’s work and his sustained, coherent vision.
Critics Review
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“[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.”
Matthew Arnold
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“What made Wordsworth’s poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they expressed not mere outward beauty but states of feeling and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings which I was in quest of.”
John Stuart Mill
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“The confusions and contradictions of Wordsworth’s young life, fed into the complex, subtle power of his great works.”
Hermione Lee, literary biographer
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“Perhaps the most celebrated and lastingly influential of the English Romantic poets…a monumental figure in English letters.”
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
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Details
- Author
- William Wordsworth
- Narrator
- Frederick Davidson
- Duration
- 3 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 March 2012
- ISBN
- 9781481540650
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Poetry
Synopsis
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) is one of the most popular and enduring of the English poets. His poetry is beloved for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, and its celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace. Together with his friend, the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped launch the romantic age in English literature. These poems demonstrate the astonishing range and beauty of Wordsworth’s work and his sustained, coherent vision.
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