Record #701 (edit record; developers only)

Date: July 1793

Event:

William Wordsworth tours western England and Wales (including Salisbury Plain, Tintern Abbey, Goodrich Castle). His travel over Salisbury Plain alone on foot (and nap at Stonehenge) leads to the writing of Salisbury Plain, largely composed between now and Sept. of this year, with some work in 1794. (The poem was later revised and expanded between 1795 and 1798 as Adventures on Salisbury Plain; then further altered in 1841 as Guilt and Sorrow; or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain, pub. 1842.) He later remembers this first visit to the Tintern Abbey area in "Tintern Abbey" (1798) after a second visit calls it to mind.

Work Title

Salisbury Plain 

Composed: 1793     

Poem 

Work2 Title

Adventures on Salisbury Plain 

Composed: 1795     

Poem 

Work3 Title

Guilt and Sorrow; or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain 

Published: 1842

Poem 

Work4 Title

Tintern Abbey 

Published: 1798

Poem 

   

Record Created or Last Modified By:

Shawn Mummert

Date Last Modified:

6/24/1999


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