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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.7 EAN: 9780140433692 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0140433694 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 736 Publication Date: May 01, 1996 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
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 Rating:  - It was for this...."A good deal of [Wordsworth's poetry], perhaps most of it, is very dull, like a long walk on a grey day. But just as somewhere on that walk there might be a sudden and superb flash of beauty, so in Wordsworth's poetry there are short passages, perhaps only a line or so, that are miraculous. An apparently simple unadorned phrase will suddenly blaze in the reader's imagination. These moments of his, once experienced, are never forgotten, and we never entirely lose our response to them." - J. B. Priestley. ... Read More Rating:  - an all-star bookThis book is a roller-coater of litereral passages that keep you on the edge of your chair. It's a real page turner. 
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