William Wordsworth's poem "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798", is often linked with the Abbey, although it does not actually mention the ruins [REF].
In 1816, the abbey was made the backdrop to Sophia F. Ziegenhirt's three-volume novel of Gothic horror, The Orphan of Tintern Abbey,[REF] dismissed by The Monthly Review as "of the most ordinary class, in which the construction of the sentences and that of the story are equally confused."[REF]