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“Tintern Abbey” is a lyric poem written by the British poet William Wordsworth
. The poem first appeared as the final work in Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection that also included several important poems by Wordsworth’s close friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This landmark collection marked the unofficial launch of what we now call the Romantic period of British poetry. “Tintern Abbey” played an especially important role in defining the terms of this new period. In this poem, Wordsworth inaugurates his so-called “myth of nature,” where he describes the development of his own mental, emotional, and moral life. This myth would culminate in the 1850 publication of his autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude.Read the free full text, a summary & analysis, an analysis of the speaker, and explanations of important quotes from “Tintern Abbey.”
