Blake annotates Wordsworth

One Power alone makes a Poet — Imagination The Divine Vision

I see in Wordsworth the Natural Man rising up against the Spiritual Man Continually & then he is No Poet but instead a Heathen Philosopher at Enmity against all true Poetry or Inspiration

In reaction to lines from “My Heart Leaps Up”: “And I could wish my days to be / Bound each by each to natural piety” There is no such thing as Natural Piety Because the Natural Man is at Enmity with God

Natural Objects always did & now do Weaken deaden & obliterate Imagination in Me Wordsworth must know that what he Writes Valuable is Not to be found in Nature…

I do not know who wrote these Prefaces they are very mischievous & direct contrary to Wordsworth ’s own Practise

…Imagination is the Divine Vision not of The World nor of Man nor from Man as he is a Natural Man but only as he is a Spiritual Man Imagination has nothing to do with Memory

Text source: The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake, David Erdman, ed. (New York: Anchor Books, 1988), 665.