Dying in 1850, whose poems included 'Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey'?
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth. The title, "Lines Written" (or "Composed") "a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798", is often abbreviated simply to "Tintern Abbey", although that building does not appear within the poem. It was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of the Welsh Borders. The description of his encounters with the countryside on the banks of the River Wye grows into an
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey which had been so internalised as to become the basis for out of the body experience. In "thoughtless youth" the poet had rushed enthusiastically about the landscape and it is only now that he realises the power such scenery has continued to have upon him, even when not physically present there. He identifies in it "a sense sublime/ Of something far more deeply interfused,/ Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns" (lines 95–97) and the immanence of "A motion and a spirit, that impels/ All thinking things, all objects of all thought,/ And rolls through all things" (lines 100–103).