Recuperating the Virtual Past Through Recollection: Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”

This essay offers a close reading of Wordsworth's poem, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," published in 1807. It responds to Beth Lau's invitation for "literary scholars to join in the interdisciplinary dialogue on the workings of memory and apply its important findings to new ways of reading Wordsworth's poetry."