Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

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"Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" is a celebrated Romantic poem by William Wordsworth that reflects on memory, nature, and spiritual renewal during a return visit to the Wye Valley.

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instanceOf English poem
Romantic poem
lyric poem
addressedTo Dorothy Wordsworth
approximateLineCount 160
author William Wordsworth
compositionDate 1798
containsMotif healing power of nature
spots of time
coPublicationWith Samuel Taylor Coleridge
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation key text of English Romanticism
one of Wordsworth's major works
explores continuity between past and present self
interplay of memory and perception
moral influence of nature
firstPublicationYear 1798
firstPublishedIn Lyrical Ballads
focusesOn recollection in tranquility
form blank verse
genre meditative poem
nature poem
includedIn Lyrical Ballads
surface form: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems
influenced later Romantic nature poetry
influencedBy Wordsworth's philosophy of nature
language English
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic period
meter iambic pentameter
narrativePerspective first person
occasion return visit to the Wye Valley
openingWords Five years have past; five summers, with the length
publisherOfFirstEdition Joseph Cottle
relatedAuthor Samuel Taylor Coleridge
relatedWork The Prelude
rhymeScheme unrhymed
setting Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
surface form: Wye Valley

near Tintern Abbey
speaker William Wordsworth
theme childhood and adulthood
imagination
memory
nature
relationship between mind and nature
spiritual renewal
the passage of time
the sublime
timeSincePreviousVisitMentioned five years

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William Wordsworth notableWork Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Lyrical Ballads containsPoem Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
poem "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth relatedWorkByAuthor Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
subject surface form: Composed upon Westminster Bridge
this entity surface form: Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey