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Christyne
Berzsenyi
Professor of English
Book Title: Ode; Intimations of Immortality: From Recollections of Early Childlhood
Author: William Wordsworth
Selection Statement:
This long poem was originally introduced to me through an excerpt presented in the 1961 film Splendor in the Grass, which portrayed the bittersweetness of life’s stages from childhood to mature age. This theme and the Romantics’ focus on nature inspired me to further study the full poem and later the purposeful use of language in the arts of literature and communication.
Year: 2021