Tintern abbey

• when was it written?

  1798
• what was the poem included in?

  lyrical ballads
• what is the importance of lyrical ballads?

  now considered to have signaled the beginning of the british romantic movement in literature
• how does tintern abbey view nature?

  restorative
• what two movements influence the poem?

  french and industrial revolutions
• very turbulent time, french revolution - contrasts peace of poem