Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth is commonly regarded as the vanguard poet of the Romantic
movement in British literature. The son of a wealthy Cumberland attorney, his birth followed the
dawn of the English Industrial Revolution. Afforded an education not uncommon of the British
bourgeoisie, Wordsworth attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, studying literature and
rhetoric, prior to the advent of the French Revolution. Having fallen prey to his keen interest in
the excitement of French revolutionary ideology, Wordsworth spent the next several years in
France with his lover, Annette Vallon. He was heavily influenced by the works of the French
revolutionaries and was impressed with an intense desire to bring similar power and fervor to his
own work. A pioneer of free verse, Wordsworth sought to cast off all literary convention,
expressing often controversial political and religious opinions through his simply-written poetry
and prose. Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads” became the consummate expression of the author’s
vibrant and effulgent new style. Wordsworth’s most famous poem, “Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey” was included as the last...
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