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Wordsworth wrote “Tintern Abbey” in 1798 and included it as the final poem in the collection Lyrical Ballads— a landmark collection of poems published with his friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, that same year. In fact, Wordsworth is said to have so valued “Tintern Abbey” that he halted the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which was already in process, to be able to include the poem as its final piece. Lyrical Ballads as a collection is now considered to have signaled the beginning of the British Romantic movement in literature. Wordsworth and Coleridge sought to challenge what they saw as the elitist, detached, and pretentious forms of 18th-century poetry in England; they wanted to create poetry that was closer to ordinary human speech and could be read and appreciated by ordinary people. As part of this, in their poems they emphasized rural life and the natural world, which they saw as restorative and the answer to the corrupting influences of society. In their thinking, they drew on the work of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who emphasized the value of the individual human being, and whose writings helped to influence the French Revolution. These tenants became the central guiding principles of Romanticism, a movement that sought to emphasize the beauty, purity, and grandeur of the natural world and value human experience up to that point excluded from “high art,” including rural life and working-class realities. On its own terms, and as part of a collection that established the beginning of the Romantic Movement, “Tintern Abbey” has had a lasting influence on British and American literature. Its views of nature and of rural life as restorative, and its implicit view of the poet as an inspired, privileged observer, have continued to shape approaches to poetry and literary criticism well into the 20th century and even today. While Wordsworth himself is seen as being influenced by the philosopher William Godwin, the writings of Rousseau, and his friend Coleridge, a less acknowledged but crucially important literary influence can be found in his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth—the “dear, dear sister” of the poem. Dorothy, too, was a writer, though she primarily wrote in journals, notably what are now known as the Grasmere Journals. Her writing is striking for its observation and precise detail, and scholarship has found that Wordsworth drew on her writing for many of his own poems. For example, his poems “Beggars” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” use images and phrases from Dorothy’s journals, without attribution. Many modern scholars now see Dorothy as an unacknowledged collaborator in Wordsworth's work.