'Tintern Abbey': Wordsworth's backward glance to Akenside - Paperback

by Richard Haynes (Author)

Wordsworth: 'Tintern Abbey'; discussion of a neglected source in Akenside's 'Pleasures of Imagination'? The author argues that passages from the revised version of Akenside's 1744 work were a direct influence on the form, structure, themes and style of one of Wordsworth's most important texts.