Ophelia

Author(s): Walter De La Mare

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Ancilla, Jennette Selig, Kirsten Ferreri, Kristin Hughes (1974-2021), Karen Savage, Katherine Spencer-Howard, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Linda Mills, Peter Yearsley, Sean McKinley, Val Grimm

Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 21 minutes

Language: English

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)