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Works of William Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

The prose introduction to this famous poem, perhaps the most famous poem
in the Wordsworthian canon, is too long to quote in its entirety. It is one of
the notes that Wordsworth gave to Miss Fenwick in his old age about his
poetry. The fact that he was commenting on his poetry long after it was
written should be borne in mind by the reader; the later Wordsworth was an
avowed Anglican who wrote a series of sonnets, "The Ecclesiastical Sonnets,"
which fit comfortably within the ...

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