william wordsworth
...oubt that Wordsworth equates God with Nature and Nature with what we may call the "life force." In his expression "holy plan" we get the idea that Nature is not only sacred but that it is organized. It works according to plan --God's plan? It might well be said of this poem that its perspectives and philosophy are more akin to Eastern belief systems, especially Buddhism, with its focus on meditation and receptivity in the achievement of clarity of mind, than on Western Christianity with its emphasis on the printed word and The Bible. But in the western world the link between religious experience and Nature was forged by the Romantics. This line of thought may not seem unusual or radical to people now, but these notions advanced by Wordsworth and his contemporaries constit...