‘A higher power than fancy’ : a study of religion, neoplatonism and imagination in William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and the prelude.

• Main Author: Goh, Mark Ek Ming.
• Other Authors: Terence Richard Dawson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50224
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth, through the voice of his speaker declares that he is “a worshipper of Nature” (Wordsworth, Abbey 261). This sums up Wordsworth’s religious preoccupation with Nature in many of his later poetic works like The Prelude and Tintern Abbey. In his works, Nature is exa...