…kinds of education both on the conceptual and verbal level, and on the non-verbal level, is outlined in two poems by Wordsworth. One is called Expostulation and Reply, and the other is called The Table's Turned. In the first poem, Wordsworth, William is…

…in two poems by Wordsworth. One is called Expostulation and Reply, and the other is 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…

…the Wordsworth's ode on the intimations of immortality, and who has also taken lysergic acid, let's say, knows quite well that Wordsworth spontaneously had this, and quite clearly Blake had it too, and many others, I would say. You do, of course, anticipate…

…so on. Well, then you speak about that. Yes. Speak now about 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…

…Christ, but it was... Oh, well, yes, this is after all the poets have thought 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…

…kinds of education both on the conceptual and verbal level, and on the non-verbal level, is outlined in two poems by Wordsworth. One is called Expostulation and Reply, and the other is called The Table's Turned. In the first poem, Wordsworth, William is…

…in two poems by Wordsworth. One is called Expostulation and Reply, and the other is 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…

…entertaining. And he was happy. I mean, he was happy sort of sitting on a stone. I mean, very like, remember that poem of Wordsworth, Expostulation and Reply, sitting on an old grey stone, as he says. And, of course, a lot of his life was spent in…

…A very good book. and pointing out, I mean, how much there is in English literature which is profoundly Zen-like. I mean, Wordsworth is full of Zen and Whitman is full of Zen. Many, many people have this sort of attitude towards nature. I mean,…

…to that intensity? Well, this is a very interesting problem. I don't know if you remember the the great poem of Wordsworth, the Ode on the Intimations of Immortality in Childhood. What Wordsworth describes there is the kind of transfigured world in which…

…I don't know if you remember the the great poem of Wordsworth, the Ode on the Intimations of Immortality in Childhood. What Wordsworth describes there is the kind of transfigured world in which he lived as a child, where everything had what he calls the…

…world with this extraordinary freshness and brightness and intensity. But most of us go through the process which is described by Wordsworth and lose this impression of the world filled with the brightness and freshness of a dream and see it as something…

…partway to that intensity? Well, this is a very interesting problem. I don't know if you remember the great poem of Wordsworth, owed on the intimations of immortality in childhood. What Wordsworth describes there is the kind of transfigured world in which…

…problem. I don't know if you remember the great poem of Wordsworth, owed on the intimations of immortality in childhood. What Wordsworth describes there is the kind of transfigured world in which he lived as a child, where everything had what he calls…

…the world with this extraordinary freshness and brightness and intensity. But most of us go through the process which is described by Wordsworth and lose this impression of the world filled with the brightness and the freshness of a dream and see it as…

…the men of science or the philosophers, but in the artists and poets. I'm going to read now... parts of two poems by Wordsworth in which the whole problem is set forth with the utmost clarity. These are two poems. One is called Expostulation and Reply,…

…all religious people, have understood perfectly well. My old friend Roger Fry, the art critic, had a very good phrase for what Wordsworth calls wise passiveness. He used to speak of alert passivity as being the state in which the artist was when preparing…

…describes himself as seeing it as a child describes it in the in the great ode on the intimations of immortality in childhood as Wordsworth said, he looks at the outside world, and it has the glory and the freshness of a dream. And he goes on to say…

…any credit for. You will find a number of these references to this kind of visionary experience of the external world in Wordsworth. It's a very beautiful poem where he speaks of the effect of sunset, how this sort of added extra transfiguring power…

…I would like to read an extremely beautiful passage from the Centuries of Meditation of Thomas Trehearne, who lived 150 years before Wordsworth, and who describes in prose his own experiences of childhood in the same way. He says, The dust and stones of…

…the ordinary sunlight which can produce this visionary view of the world. I would like to read another very beautiful poem by Wordsworth where he describes the effect of sunset. No sound is uttered But a deep and solemn harmony pervades the hollow veil…

…says, which the visionary sees encrusting the rocks and the architecture of the visionary world. And they have the quality, as Wordsworth says in here, this gem-like quality, which can be perceived in certain circumstances in the external world by an eye…

…case histories of poets and other artists in relation to the time in which they lived. For example, take the case of Wordsworth. He wrote his lyrical ballads, the whole of the prelude, and the great odes, including the ode on the intimations of…

…Wordsworthian reaction to nature, this kind of nature mysticism, which is what appeals to us and is the thing by which Wordsworth lives and seems to us important in the modern world. One of Wordsworth's contemporaries was Jane Austen. And here again is…

…I think, taking again, reverting to the world of nature, I think there could be no doubt at all that poets such as Wordsworth and prose writers such as Ruskin did an enormous amount to make large numbers of readers aware of aspects of nature which…

…mysticism running through the literature of the early 19th century, above all, and through the later 19th century, the nature mysticism of Wordsworth in England, of Whitman in many of his writings in this country. and which is a kind of, as I say, an…

…world. And this to me is something which is moving and important. I'm an old and unregenerate Wordsworthian. and I regard Wordsworth as among the four or five greatest English poets and a man who has contributed insights of enormous importance. And insights…

…of living substance which links man's soul with the material world outside him which is not a whole immaterial world because as Wordsworth says, there is in his memorable words in the Tintern Abbey, there is a sense sublime of something far more deeply…

…It's interesting to go back into the history of literature and to see that this problem was considered quite carefully by Wordsworth at the end of the 18th century in the preface to the lyrical ballads. Wordsworth has a very interesting passage where…

…was considered quite carefully by Wordsworth at the end of the 18th century in the preface to the lyrical ballads. Wordsworth has a very interesting passage where he says, that the remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, the mineralogist will…

…wonder that, given such a vocabulary, that these scientific facts and theories are not felt to be relevant to us, as Wordsworth says, as suffering and enjoying beings, although perhaps as suffering beings, yes, but certainly not as enjoying beings. And one…

…memories are, as all psychiatrists know, a cause of neurosis and psychosis. Even at the best, they're a cause of endless distractions. Wordsworth has this phrase, you remember, the, and I would wish my day, the child is father of the man, and I would…