blyth's first book ain't his best nor his easiest but worth at least one readthe premise is more or less that great literature is zen, and what's not is not. so when wordsworth is good he's also zen, and bad wordsworth is also non-zen.blyth's personal story is worth googling [it's also recounted in [author: rick fields]' wonderful [book: how the swans came to the lake]the book came out the same time as [author: aldous huxley]'s [book: perennial philosophy] by the way (context, context)