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Wordsworth's TINTERN ABBEY.(William Wordsworth)(prayer and faith)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19940622
Author:RAND, THOMAS

In his reading of "Tintern Abbey" in The Visionary Company, Harold Bloom finds in the apostrophe to Dorothy a prayer that is "never quite expressed," but which grows out of the poet's "desire to be free of the fear that enters so early into the poet's life and poem" (133). According to Bloom, the prayer is heralded in lines 121-23, the tone of which approaches desperation: "and this prayer I make, / Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her." In Bloom's reading, the prayer itself is never directly voiced in the remainder of the poem. It is essentially an ...

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