![]() Nature, as it seems, offers Wordsworth comfort, refuge and inspiration in troubled times, very much like the Christian God. In his works, Nature is exalted to the status of a deity of whom he worships, prays to and visits as a religious pilgrim. This sums up Wordsworth’s religious preoccupation with Nature in many of his later poetic works like The Prelude and Tintern Abbey. In Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth, through the voice of his speaker declares that he is “a worshipper of Nature” (Wordsworth, Abbey 261). ![]() ![]() ‘A higher power than fancy’ : a study of religion, neoplatonism and imagination in William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and the prelude. ![]()
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