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2 Marjorie Levinson, "Insight and Oversight: Reading Tintern Abbey,'" Wordsworth's Great Period Poems (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986)15.
3 Stephen Prickett, England and the French Revolution (London: MacMillan Education LTD., 1989)8.
4 In response to Miss Patty Smith's comments on The Excursion, Wordsworth wrote that her mistaken notion that he was a "worshiper of Nature" was based on "a passionate expression, uttered incautiously in the poem upon the Wye . . . . She, reading in cold-heartedness, and substituting the letter for the spirit." See The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years, vol. 2, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937) 618.
5 William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey," Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 1797-1800 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell UP, 1992) ll. 3-8. Subsequent references are cited in the text.
6 Quotations from the King James Bible were taken from the World Wide Web, courtesy of the University of Virginia. The address is "http://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html."
7 The Book of Common Prayer (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode) 319. Subsequent references are cited in the text.
8 Kenneth Johnston, "The Politics of Tintern Abbey.'" The Wordsworth Circle (1983) 133.
9 Richard Bourke, Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity: Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993) 46.
10 Johnston, "The Triumphs of Failure: Wordsworth's _Lyrical Ballads_ of 1798," The Age of William Wordsworth: Critical Essays in the Romantic Tradition, ed. Kenneth R. Johnston and Gene Ruoff (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1987) 143.
11 For _her_ sake, the patriarch says, not his, and we cannot help but think that in saving her brother, the spinster Dorothy does indeed save herself.
12 The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, vol. 5., ed. Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949) 2.
13 James Longenbach, "Leaving Things Out," Southwest Review, 1994. Online. InfoTrac. 20 October, 1995.