In "The Prelude", this poet wrote that at age 10 he "held unconscious intercourse with beauty old as creation"
If these thoughts Are a gratuitous emblazonry That mocks the recreant age... [DOC] [TLE] WILLIAM WORDSWORTH determined, without pointing out, in what ... [PAR] An attorney's son, he was orphaned at age thirteen, but attended Cambridge ... 
his major poetry, including the autobiographical poetic epic The Prelude (though 
it ... to prefix a systematic defence of the theory, upon which the poems were 
written.