William Wordsworth and Edna St. Vincent Millay

William Wordsworth is often considered to be the greatest poet of the Romantic era, and his "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798" - almost always called simply "Tintern Abbey" for rather obvious reasons - is considered to be one of the pinnacles of Romantic poetry. In this poem, Wordsworth makes a compelling argument that in the presence of nature and of natural beauty each individual becomes refreshed, revivified, and sanctified: It was the chief tenet of the Romantic era that the evils that civilization burned into human nature could be eased away by nature. Nature, for Wordsworth, restored to each human soul something of the original state of innocence. All of nature, including this ruin set against the beauty of the flowing Wye, was a little piece of Eden. He describes his coming once again upon this place that he has encountered once and whose beauties he has carried with him:

Through a long absence, have not been to me

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but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft-- 50 In darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart-- How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, 60 The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like a man 70 Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser plea
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Approximate Word count = 2811
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)