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

On the other hand, we might reread Shakespeare's Hamlet, Milton's Lycidas, and Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality every month for a lifetime, and discover some new beauty and truth at every reading.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

"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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thus laa-noo is old Manx for child, and it means literally half saint—a sweet conception, which says the best of all that is contained in Wordsworth's wondrous "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality."

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Sir Hall Caine

It contains "The Retreat," a poem of about 30 lines which manifestly suggested to Wordsworth his Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, and "Beyond the Veil," one of the finest meditative poems in the language.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin