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This poem's speaker encounters a symbol of the "utmost that we know / both of ourselves and of the universe" when he sees the written story of a blind beggar's life tied around the beggar's neck. Street plays inspire an extended digression about the Maid of Buttermere in this poem, which contains two sections on "Imagination and Taste." It claims that peace and repose must come from the "pure source" or they "will by man be sought in vain" in a section that describes a shepherd-guided moonlit journey from Bethgelert's huts to the heights of Snowdon. Its speaker declares "Fair seed-time had my soul" in its opening section, "Childhood." It was never titled in its poet's lifetime, and is subtitled "the growth of a poet's mind." For 10 points, name this long autobiographical poem by William Wordsworth.
This poem's speaker encounters a symbol of the "utmost that we know / both of ourselves and of the universe" when he sees the written story of a blind beggar's life tied around the beggar's neck.
The Prelude