These lines from one of Wordsworth’s most imposing poems recall the lost magic of childhood in a metaphorical spring, they seem a perfect way to greet the return of the green fuse. Listen to the first ...

“Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” chronicles the poet's emotional detachment from nature; his blissful rediscovery of it in memories of childhood; and his ...

Their eyes hold visions that I can share again. I pick up Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality” and feel more than ever before the overwhelming meaning of that great ode. The things ...

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting," said Wordsworth in his ode Intimations of Immortality. And so we celebrate death, as we do in every culture. There is nothing so mysterious, so ...