The poem "The Tables Turned" was written by which of these poets?

The poem "The Tables Turned" was written by William Wordsworth, an English Romantic poet, in 1798. It was published in his "Lyrical Ballads", a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect of the poem on critics was modest, but it has become a landmark, changing the course of English literature/poetry. Most of the poems in the 1798 edition were written by Wordsworth, with Coleridge contributing only four poems (although these made about a third of the book in length).

Literary experts note that "The Tables Turned" is about the importance of nature. It says that books are just barren leaves that provide empty knowledge, and that nature is the best teacher which can teach more about human, evil, and good. Wordsworth describes the beautiful songs of birds like the woodland linnet and the throstle. It's a poem about the power of nature to inspire and uplift humanity. Nature is described as creating great joy, and it through its laws teaches man the way things work out. So, a clear message of the poem is that nature is the ultimate good influence.

Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland in April 1770. He believed (as he expressed in poems such as “Immortality Ode") that, upon being born, human beings move from a perfect, idealized realm into the imperfect, un-ideal earth. He died in April 1850, Rydal Mount, Westmorland.