“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth is a poem written in 1798, which reflects on the poet\'s return to the Wye Valley in Wales after a five-year absence. Wordsworth uses the poem to explore his own spiritual journey,
"Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" is a poem by William Wordsworth. The title, Lines Written 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. It was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of the Welsh Borders. The description of his encounters with the countryside on the banks of the River Wye grows into an outline of his general philosophy. There has been considerable debate about why evidence of the human presence in the landscape has been downplayed and in what way the poem fits within the 18th-century loco-descriptive genre. The poem was published in Lyrical Ballads (1798).