“Why Tintern Abbey?” A friend asks me. I am not so sure. I am not even that fond of William Wordsworth. As a student of English Literature (which, in those days, meant literature from England), I ...

Modern critics have been suspicious of the "abundant recompense" that "Tintern Abbey" claims for the replacement of youthful joys by mature thought. Many have contrasted unconscious motivation and ...

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It is not difficult to see why some poets from Lord Byron to the present have resisted and sometimes even jeered at William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The refreshing heterodoxy of Wordsworth's youthful ...

TINTERN, Wales (AP) _ Here, amid and around the ruins of the medieval Tintern Abbey, the solace and serenity recalled so poetically by William Wordsworth is almost palpable to 21st-century visitors.

A farmer's polytunnels in the area immortalised by Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey have been condemned as an eyesore by a judge. By Laura Roberts 04 July 2010 • 2:15pm Conservationists in Herefordshire ...

BBC Radio 4 listeners praised Prince Charles' beautiful reading of a William Wordsworth poem to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth. Charles, 71, who recently completed a period of ...