Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Written by William Wordsworth
Narrated by Venkataraman M
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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.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.
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