Wordsworth's Idea of Childhood

Poets and philosophers have imagined childhood as an awakening from the sleep before life, or the sleep between lives. Companions, was auctioned at Heritage for $21,250.00 on Nov. 4, 2025] Some see it as a transitional phase between the sleep of non-existence and the waking sleep of modern life. I love the way William Wordsworth put it: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that…