I thought that "Tintern Abbey" was the poster poem for romantic memory. " Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" contains the whole idea in its title: Immortality, Recollection. Remembering makes us immortal. This is Wordsworth platonic mind writing, calling us to remember, because as Plato would lecture, to forget is lethal. In rememberance, we live on.
"But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!" -Wordsworth, "Intimations"
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