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  • Or maybe it's just because there are no monsters in "Tintern Abbey."

    Aelfric vs. Wordsworth Prof. de Breeze 2008

  • Or maybe it's just because there are no monsters in "Tintern Abbey."

    Archive 2008-02-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008

  • Oscar loved Christmas, as did the other children in Tintern, but many of them pined for their parents and homes.

    The Codex Continual » “Oscar’s Christmas” Part the First 2008

  • His parents busy with war work, Oscar now lived in Tintern, Wales with his Aunt Brigid.

    The Codex Continual » “Oscar’s Christmas” Part the First 2008

  • His parents busy with war work, Oscar now lived in Tintern, [...]

    The Codex Continual » 2008 December 2008

  • The papers were stolen from the back seat of a car belonging to Southend West constituency secretary Ron Kennedy, who had stopped in Tintern Avenue, Westcliff, to get signatures from two party members before handing the forms in at the Civic Centre

    Fallen in with the wrong sett 2006

  • Even Dorothy's redeeming force as portrayed in "Tintern Abbey" is a foil to the gloom of Roderick Usher which the narrator traces "to the severe and long-continued illness ... of a tenderly beloved sister, his sole companion for long years" (100).

    Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999

  • Thus much for the first moment -- chronologically, not narratively -- of dread-induced blockage and sublime release in "Tintern Abbey."

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • Though J.W. Beach (76-77) is to be credited with first observing the resemblances between Wordsworth's "sense sublime" in "Tintern Abbey" and the primordial Newtonian "ether," Cooper, Beer, and Durrant argue that the poet embraced mesmeric doctrines only obliquely, remaining undecided as to the objective existence of the magnetic, or any other vital, universally pervasive ether.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • The operative conceit of most Romantic odes (perhaps with the notable exception of Keats's "To Autumn") is that the speaker is trying to connect with something that is by definition beyond the speaker’s horizon, with the attendant Kantian problems of accessing a noumenal realm inaccessible from the phenomenal: Wordsworth’s past in "Tintern Abbey," Shelley's Mont Blanc, Keats’s nightingale.

    Hermeneutics for Sophomores 2003

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