It's not often that an extended appreciation of a poem that is more than 200 years old appears in a major newspaper. The November 17th Wall Street Journal contained a remarkable dissection of Wordworth's "Tintern Abbey" by David Lehman, a teacher of writing and a poet himself, as well as commentary on what the poem means to him personally. Here are 19 words from Lehman (and Wordsworth) about how one can experience great poetry, even centuries after it was composed. From The Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2013 What Makes William Wordsworth's Poem 'Tintern Abbey' a Masterpiece
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