Wordsworth reboots the Intimations Ode
Feb 17, 2012•50 min
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Episode description
[Close reading] After the dead end of his attempt to recover the Visionary Gleam, Wordsworth gives up the Intimations Ode for a couple of years. Then he reboots, imagining a different source for the clouds of glory that he saw in youth, since "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." We begin considering this new, Platonic perspective.
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