The sadness of humanity made itself heard in 'Tintern Abbey'; yet, fused into the context of Nature, that sadness was heard as music, as something beautiful. 'Tintern Abbey' is a passionate poem ...

And Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”: “Five years have passed ... “in consecutive phrases like a man molding and reshaping the nature of what it is he needs and wants to say, trying always and repeatedly ...

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 ...

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The woodlands around Tintern Abbey form a very important habitat for ... on the words of Sir David Attenborough when he said 'nature once determined how we survive - now we determine how nature ...

Lamenting the loss of youthful joy in nature, he muses on the compensations of maturity. There is always a moral dimension to his visionary moments. The fourth line is haunting.

The sadness of humanity made itself heard in 'Tintern Abbey'; yet, fused into the context of Nature, that sadness was heard as music, as something beautiful. 'Tintern Abbey' is a passionate poem ...