Blake annotates Wordsworth ~~Selections of [William Blake]'s reactions to [William Wordsworth]'s Poems (1815), scribbled by Blake in the margins:~~ 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. 2005-03-09 18:43:15.0 2005-03-09 18:43:15.0