Walter De la Mare - Ophelia

Ophelia

Walter De la Mare

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Walter De la Mare

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Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

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Ancilla

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Jennette Selig

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Kirsten Ferreri

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Kristin Hughes

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Karen Savage

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Katherine Spencer-Howard

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Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

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Linda Mills

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Peter Yearsley

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Sean McKinley

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Val Grimm

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22 minutes

Year

1920

Summary

Ophelia, poem of the week for February 25, 2007; read here by twelve of our readers. This was published in 1920 in «Collected Poems 1901-1918» by Walter De la Mare.

Ophelia loved Hamlet, was repulsed by him, and went insane. She drowned in a stream, gathering flowers of remembrance. This is one of a number of poems that De La Mare wrote about Shakespeare characters. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

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