Tintern Abbey

In “Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He escapes the world which is…

What was ‘the picturesque’ in eighteenth century British art, and where in Britain did artists go to find it? According to a modern dictionary, the definition of the word picturesque is ‘visually pleasing, as in being striking or quaint’1. The definition of picturesque in the eighteenth century was a lot different. The word originated from…