Intimations of Immortality

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noun

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

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Intimations of Immortality

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lord Houghton says of this poem: "If I am asked what is the greatest poem in the English language, I never for a moment hesitate to say, Wordsworth's 'Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.'"

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

Tell us who wrote the 'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.'

From The Plastic Age by Marks, Percy

I much admire Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," as well as many of his shorter and simpler pieces—"The Longest Day," for instance.

From A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England by Southall, Eliza

Comparison is sometimes an excellent thing; and if we compare Shelley's exquisite "Lament," beginning "O world, O life, O time," with Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," we shall perhaps understand both poets better.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph