Wall Street Journal: What Makes William Wordsworth's Poem 'Tintern Abbey' a Masterpiece
TINTERN, Wales (AP) _ Here, amid and around the ruins of the medieval Tintern Abbey, the solace and serenity recalled so poetically by William Wordsworth is almost palpable to 21st-century visitors.
heraldscotland: Poem of the Day: (from) Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Poem of the Day: (from) Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
It is not difficult to see why some poets from Lord Byron to the present have resisted and sometimes even jeered at William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The refreshing heterodoxy of Wordsworth's youthful ...
Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour. Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear ...
For William Wordsworth, Nature seemed to be at once outside him and to belong permanently in the depths of his soul; for his younger sister Dorothy the external world was brilliant but constantly ...
Imagine living in a "vortex of poetry" — that's how biographer Frances Wilson describes life in England's Lake District. The year was 1800, and William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth ...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on , the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on .
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066, [2] and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era.