Tintern Abbey
Mary Shelley quotes lines 76-83
of the last poem in the 1798
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, changing first person
pronouns to the third person ("or" in line 83 was regularized by
Wordsworth to "nor" only in 1836).
The quotation of these celebrated
lines about natural inspiration underscores the association of Henry
Clerval with the Romantic poet, and more specifically, might recall Byron's remark that Percy Shelley "dosed" him with
Wordsworth during the summer
of 1816.
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