Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Name: Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: William Wordsworth
ISBN: 9781669604983

Author: William Wordsworth

Narrator: Venkataraman M

Unabridged: 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: M. VENKATARAMAN

Published: 11/14/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Poetry, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

Synopsis

William Wordsworth is one of the greatest poets of English Literature. This poem 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' is often considered as one of Wordsworth's greatest masterpieces. Here, he explores some of the themes that always inspired him, namely his childhood, the memories, the beauties of nature, and the human soul.In this audio book, the poem has been analysed with a brief annotation with relevant quotations from the original text. The main poem has also been narrated. An e-book and a printed version is also available with certain major booksellers.

About William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an influential English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age of English literature with the 1798 joint publication of Lyrical Ballads. He was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Victor

I was once asked during an employment interview by a college provost early in my career what was the most influential book I had ever read. I did not hesitate and answered the works of William Wordsworth, especially "Intimations of Immortality." He looked at me with an inscrutable expression for a m......more

Goodreads review by Claudia

Today is World Poetry Day and my commitment this day (and to my life) is to keep reading poetry. I am a multilingual person and thus can and do admire many authors in different languages. But to me, the one poem that speaks to my soul so intensely is Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollection......more

Goodreads review by Carlie

Read this years ago after Penny Dreadful introduced it to me. Still love it to this day. Wordsworth is indeed a man after my own heart. It's a long poem, but I come back to it all the time. And after I've read it again I feel like I'm sighing, letting go of a breath I didn't know I was holding.......more

Goodreads review by John

This is a very sad and even melancholy poem about life and its many stages and particular what is lost and left behind.......more