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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.
On 20 September they all took a trip to Newark Castle on the Yarrow which might, Wordsworth realized, be Scott's last. This day's journey was the occasion of two poems by Wordsworth, one a sonnet beginning "A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain", [57] and the other "Yarrow Revisited", written a few weeks later in October 1831. [58]
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.
Lucy Gray is generally not included with Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, [4] even though it is a poem that mentions a character named Lucy. [3] The poem is excluded from the series because the traditional "Lucy" poems are uncertain about the age of Lucy and her actual relationship with the narrator, and Lucy Gray provides exact details on both. [5]
That same year, she married John Moorman, an Anglican cleric who rose to become the Bishop of Ripon. She is best known today for her two-volume biography of the poet William Wordsworth. The first volume came out in 1957, followed by a second volume in 1966. The latter won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.
To the Daisy (fourth poem) 1805 "Sweet Flower! belike one day to have" Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. 1815 Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, painted by Sir George Beaumont: 1805 Manuscript title: "Verses suggested, etc," "I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!" Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. 1807 Elegiac ...
"Poor Susan" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth composed at Alfoxden in 1797. It was first published in the collection Lyrical Ballads in 1798. It is written in anapestic tetrameter. The poem records the memories awakening in a country girl in London on hearing a thrush sing in the early morning.
"To a Butterfly" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807. Wordsworth wrote two poems addressing a butterfly, of which this is the first and best known. [ 1 ]