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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Tintern Abbey

This poem is written out of the experiences of a walking tour that
Wordsworth shared with his sister Dorothy, in June of 1798. The background
circumstances are that the two had gone to Bristol to look after the details
of publishing the Lyrical Ballads. But they did not stay in the city long;
they did not finds its buzz and hum at all compatible with their
predispositions, so that after about a week they escaped into that country
that Wordsworth had enjoyed seeing about five years before with his college
friend, Robert Jones. He and ...

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