Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth | Edited by Mark Van Doren Katie Boyle Each person responds in their

Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate

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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth | Edited by Mark Van Doren Katie Boyle Each person responds in theirSelected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworths prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late Yarrow Revisited. Wordsworths 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, [Wordsworths poetry] is great because of the