Ode on Intimations of Immortality – Appreciation and Explanations
Wordsworth’s celebrated Ode on Immortality has been widely praised by critics. Emerson, the American critic, for example, regards it as, “the high watermark of poetry in the 19th century.” Wordsworth himself attached great importance to it. He positioned it at the end of his collected poems as if it were the roof and crown of his works and his last word on the central problems of his creative life.
