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Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American period drama film produced and directed by Elia Kazan, from a screenplay written by William Inge. It stars Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty (in his film debut) as two high school sweethearts, navigating feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, poem by William Wordsworth composed 1802–1804. A stanza from the poem is read by Natalie Wood's character in the 1961 movie. "Though nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; / We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind".
Splendor in the Grass is a 1981 American TV movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian. The movie is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name , written by William Inge and starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty .
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
"The Sparrows Nest" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1801.It was first published in the collection Poems in Two Volumes in 1807.. The poem is a moving tribute to Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, recalling their early childhood together in Cockermouth before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old.
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 To a Highland Girl (at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) (V) 1803 "Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower" Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Glen Almain; or, The Narrow Glen (VI) 1803
The Ode: Intimations of Immortality is the most celebrated poem published in Wordsworth's Poems in Two Volumes collection. While modern critics believe that the poems published in Wordsworth's 1807 collection represented a productive and good period of his career, contemporary reviewers were split on the matter and many negative reviews cast ...