…called The Table's Turned. In the first poem, Wordsworth, William is sitting on a stone by the side of a lake, and his friend Matthew comes to him and says, Why do you spend all your time sitting here? Why aren't you reading your books? And he replies…

…while you're asleep. And it is, of course, it's fantastic, the combinations that it makes. That is Mao's thing. And... I mean, Matthew was saying that the Indians that he was living with, one of the troubles is they commit a good many murders because…

…that a little bit. Well, I can use this quotation from Wordsworth, which is quite good, you know, about the expostulation and reply, Matthew comes in and sees William sitting on an old grey stone and says, why do you sit like this? You sit as though…

…this way. I mean, Blake thought this way, Wordsworth thought this way. And then, you see, he then goes and finds his friend Matthew reading books and says, come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. One impulse from a vernal wood…

…called The Table's Turned. In the first poem, Wordsworth, William is sitting on a stone by the side of a lake, and his friend Matthew comes to him and says, Why do you spend all your time sitting here? Why aren't you reading your books? And he replies…

…none had lived before you. One morning thus by Esthwaite Lake, when life was sweet, I knew not why, to me my good friend Matthew spake, and thus I made reply. The eye, it cannot choose but see. We cannot bid the ear be still. Our bodies feel where'er…

…and dream my time away. In the companion poem, in the table's turn, it is William, the poet, who takes the offensive against Matthew, the scholarly man. And he begins by reproaching him for being a bookworm. And he says, books to the dull and endless…

…those barren leaves. Come forth and bring with you a heart that watches and receives. Well, it's quite clear that both William and Matthew were right, that there has to be Books, there have to be books, there has to be study on the purely verbal level,…

…by activity. But activity alone is not enough nor is inspiration alone enough. There has to be both. There has to be both William and Matthew. And in the words of the gospel, there has to be both the way of Martha and the way of Mary. But these seem…

…Whitmanian Rhapsody, which is an extremely beautiful thing, with the much more classical expression of the same idea, which we find in Matthew Arnold's Strayed Reveler, where he speaks of the poet seeing the world as clearly as the gods see it. but seeing…

…it in as much as he is identified with what he looks at and suffers with what he looks at. And it's summed up in Matthew Arnold's poem in these words, such a price the gods exact for song to become what we sing. Well, the process is of course one…

…the fact that we use language and that we are guided by these concepts which we have in our head, which permit us, in Matthew Arnold's words, he says that tasks in hours of insight willed may be in hours of gloom fulfilled. And these tasks may be…

…and of salvation by works. The whole thing was summed up in four curious lines which occur in a A poem of Matthew Pryor's, a surprising poem because he generally wrote rather frivolous and charming lyrics. But this is a long reflective poem about…