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 He was an English romantic poet who , with Samuel
Taylor Coleridge , helped to launch the romantic age in
English literature .
 Wordsworth is best known for lyrical ballads .
 He was born on April 7 , 1770 in Cocker mouth ,
Cumberland , located in the lake district of England
 Wordsworth was called by Shelly “Poet of nature”.
 He held a firm faith that nature could enlighten the
kindheartedness and universal brotherhood of human
being, and only existing in harmony with nature where
man could get true happiness.
 “Tintern Abbey” is William Wordsworth’s most famous
poems, published in 1798.

 It is a conversational poem that contains elements of an

Ode and dramatic monologue.

 Wordsworth, through this poem, helps his readers

understand his philosophies on nature and its beauty.

 The poem is based on a small place situated in the village

of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the
River Wye.