. William Wordsworth, his life, works and influence . Severn Ferry, andwalked ten miles further to Tintern Abbey, a verybeautiful ruin on the Wye. The next morning wewalked along the river through Monmouth to GoderichCastle, there slept, and returned the next day to Tintern,thence to Chepstow, and from Chepstow back again ina boat to Tintern, where we slept, and thence back ina small vessel to Bristol.** The most precious result of this journey was the poementitled ** Lines written a few miles above TinternAbbey, of which Wordsworth says, in the Fenwicknote: No poem of mine was composed under
. William Wordsworth, his life, works and influence . Severn Ferry, andwalked ten miles further to Tintern Abbey, a verybeautiful ruin on the Wye. The next morning wewalked along the river through Monmouth to GoderichCastle, there slept, and returned the next day to Tintern,thence to Chepstow, and from Chepstow back again ina boat to Tintern, where we slept, and thence back ina small vessel to Bristol.** The most precious result of this journey was the poementitled ** Lines written a few miles above TinternAbbey, of which Wordsworth says, in the Fenwicknote: No poem of mine was composed under circum-stances more pleasant for me to remember than began it upon leaving Tintern, after crossing the Wye,and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in theevening, after a ramble of four or five days with mysister. Not a line of it was altered, and not any partof it written down till I reached Bristol. It was pub-lished almost immediately after in the little volume ofwhich so much has been said in these notes —,* Lyrical Alfoxden. CHAPTER XV LYRICAL BALLADS We are now approaching the most momentous event inWordsworths hfe, so far as his connection with thepubhc is concerned. For many months he and Cole-ridge had been preparing to make what proved to beone of the most gallant adventures in literary had exerted themselves to produce enough poetryto fill a volume, and were already planning with Cottlefor its publication. It is perhaps not generally known that the names ofS. T. Coleridge and W. Wordsworth had already ap-peared in print together. In a rare copy of Poems byFrancis Wrangham, , member of Trinity College,Cambridge, published in 1795, and now belonging tothe library of Princeton University, they are bothcredited with translations, the former of some Latinand the latter of some French verses, already mentioned, LEducation de IAmour, by the Vicomte de first poem in the little volume is dedicated to BasilMontagu. The t
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