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Mary Caroline Moorman (19 February 1905 - 21 January 1994) was a British historian and biographer. ... William Wordsworth : a biography, Clarendon Press, 1957-1965.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, ... Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography, The Early Years 1770–1803 ...
Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography: The Later Years, 1803–1850 v. 2, Oxford University Press, 1965, ISBN 978-0198116172 M. R. Tewari, One Interior Life—A Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic Experience (New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1983)
Mary Moorman, like Shairp, agreed with Wordsworth's own misgivings about the poem, while also being charmed by the picture it presented of two poets finding happiness for a few hours in spite of age and sickness. [72]
In the view of one Wordsworth biographer, Mary Moorman (1906–1994), "The identity of 'Lucy' has been the problem of critics for many years. But Wordsworth is a poet before he is a biographer, and neither 'Lucy' nor her home nor his relations with her are necessarily in the strict sense historical.
Nevertheless, Wordsworth's biographer Mary Moorman notes that Dorothy was excluded from the poem, even though she had seen the daffodils together with Wordsworth. The poem itself was placed in a section of Poems in Two Volumes entitled "Moods of my Mind" in which he grouped together his most deeply felt lyrics.
In addition, Mary Moorman includes "Expostulation and Reply" and its companion, "The Tables Turned" as part of the series, [6] and states that lines of "Address to the Scholars of the Village School of —" overlaps with the lines of two Matthew poems that were not published while Wordsworth was alive. [7]
The beginning of the poem, according to Wordsworth biographer Mary Moorman, depicts a "creative sleep of the senses when the 'soul' and imagination are most alive." [6] This idea appears in other poems by Wordsworth, including Tintern Abbey. [6] The space between stanza one and stanza two depicts a transition of Lucy from life into death.