Tintern Abbey

Name: Tintern Abbey
Author: William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

Meditation on memory, nature, and the passage of time

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William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet who with Coleridge launched the Romantic age with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His autobiographical epic The Prelude traces the growth of the poetic mind in relation to nature.

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