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Intimations of Immortality

American  

noun

  1. (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood ), a poem (1807) by Wordsworth.


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By some literary freak he also managed to write the Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great poems have been the serious poems, the In Memoriam, and the Intimations of Immortality, the Hamlet and the Lear.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Wordsworth's "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" moves in obedience to its own rhythmic impulses only, like Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and Emerson's "Bacchus."

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

Or to take a yet more forcible example of my meaning: Hood wrote The Song of the Shirt, and Wordsworth The Ode on Intimations of Immortality; would either have gained by an exchange of lot?

From The Quest of the Simple Life by Dawson, William J.

"The Ancient Mariner," his greatest poem, was published some years before Wordsworth's "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" was written, or Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel."

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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