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Wordsworth reboots the Intimations Ode

Published: Feb. 17, 2012, 2:34 p.m.

b'[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. \\xa0Then 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." \\xa0We begin considering this new, Platonic perspective.'