[New-Poetry] Wordsworth at Tintern Abbey

[TheOldMole]

Only tangentially relevant, but the poem that really stands out for me 
as the quintessence of Romanticism is Coleridge's "This Lime Tree Bower 
My Prison."

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/13/2007 3:25:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> chris.lott at gmail.com writes:
>
>     Thanks for the link. I love that poem... it was one of the
>     centerpieces in a time that really got me interested in poetry.
>
> Chris, I would go so far as saying that anyone who doesn't love that 
> poem doesn't know what poetry is.
>  
> Another of my Wordsworth essentials is "Composed Upon Westminister 
> Bridge." Lots of analogs for it in contemporary poetry. Standing above 
> a scene and taking it in, with the filter of poetic insight. 
> Wordsworth's nice outward turn at the end, "And all that mighty heart 
> is lying still."
>  
> Finnegan
>
>
>
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