[New-Poetry] Wordsworth at Tintern Abbey

Chris Lott chris.lott at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 15:24:55 EDT 2007


On 7/13/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.todayinliterature.com/index.asp
>
>  Wordsworth at Tintern Abbey
>
>   On this day in 1798 William Wordsworth finished writing "Lines Composed a
> Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the poem being worked out in his head during
> a four-day walking tour

Thanks for the link. I love that poem... it was one of the
centerpieces in a time that really got me interested in poetry. It's a
sign of something, I am sure, that I feel nearly ashamed at admitting
I still care for a lot of Wordsworth's poems. How quiet and irrelevant
I am.

c


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