‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ often abbreviated as Tintern Abbey is a long blank verse poem by William Wordsworth that was written in 1798 and was published in the poetic collection Lyrical Ballads during the same year. Lyrical Ballads was a joint project of William Wordsworth and his friend and colleague Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem consists of 162 lines and it is set on the banks of the Wye River which William Wordsworth revisited on July 13, 1798. He had visited the Wye Valley earlier some five years ago and at that time he was alone, and a troubled person. In 1798, he was much more mature and was working with Coleridge for the publication of Lyrical Ballads. He revisited the site with his sister Dorothy Williams whom he addresses in the poem as ‘friend.’ “Tintern Abbey” was included as the final poem in Lyrical Ballads, first edition in 1798. While the poem is popular by the title ‘Tintern Abbey’, that building is not mentioned anywhere in the poem (except for the title).
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