"We are two": the address to Dorothy in "Tintern Abbey.".(Dorothy Wordsworth)(William Wordsworth)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Thompson, Heidi | Copyright information

FEW READERS DOUBT THE PROMINENCE OF "TINTERN ABBEY" IN THE Wordsworth canon; yet despite an almost uninterrupted flow of critical interest since 1798, this poem continues to challenge readers to the extent that Alan Grob has recently described the poem as "that dark and bloody ground over which so many of the battles of Romantic New Historicist historiography have been fought." (1) The contested presence of "Tintern Abbey" in Wordsworth scholarship oscillates at present between two...

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