Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth | Edited by Mark Van Doren Katie Boyle With its simple and dainty

With its simple and dainty design

Our very cells are intricate molecular machines

“On Liberty remains a classic

and its representation of commonplace things and events

The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth | Edited by Mark Van Doren Katie Boyle With its simple and daintySelected 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