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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
Sep 15, 2023
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Poetry Aloud: Our poem this week by William Wordsworth, the poem we know by its abbreviated title of “Tintern Abbey,” is one of the finest tributes to nature ever written, but not at all nature as opposed to the human world, or nature as opposed to art, but — I believe, giving the poet Wordsworth credit for a genuine piety and a searchingly religious so…
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