SMP #29 Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

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This episode was recording during the holidays 2019. The Holidays are a time of reflections on your past as you prepare for New Years Eve resolutions for your future.

Can recollecting your past be done improperly? Is it an infallible process? If it is not infallible, what should we do about it? These are some of the themes we will see in Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth.

The full title of this poem is 
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern
Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
during a Tour. July 13, 1798.

In this episode I explore the final poem of the 1798 Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey. Here we get the first poem that shows the Giant Wordsworth. The former poems in Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth were great explorations of his poetic abilities, but in Tintern Abbey we get the full philosophical, psychological, autobiographical and poetic mastery that is Wordsworth.


For my full notes and breakdown go to troubadourmag.com