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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798. By William Wordsworth. Five years have past; five summers, with the length. Of five long winters! and again I hear. These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs. With a soft inland murmur.—Once again.
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”— commonly known as “Tintern Abbey”— is a poem written by the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth had first visited the Wye Valley when he was 23 years old.
Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ tells of the power and influence of nature in guiding life and morality. William Wordsworth is one of the most renowned and influential Romantic poets. He was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
“Tintern Abbey” is the young Wordsworth’s first great statement of his principle (great) theme: that the memory of pure communion with nature in childhood works upon the mind even in adulthood, when access to that pure communion has been lost, and that the maturity of mind present in adulthood offers compensation for the loss of that ...
Nov 5, 2018 · ‘Tintern Abbey’ by William Wordsworth. Five years have past; five summers, with the length. Of five long winters! and again I hear. These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs. With a soft inland murmur.—Once again. Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress. Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect.
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth. The title, Lines Written (or Composed) a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey, although that building does not appear within the poem.
Tintern Abbey By William Wordsworth Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Students and Staff of The University of Virginia and Simon Fraser University
