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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.
From July to September 1814 Wordsworth was again on tour in Scotland, accompanied by his wife Mary and her sister, Sara Hutchinson. On 1 September they started from Traquair and, along with the poet James Hogg and (initially) Robert Anderson , editor of The Works of the British Poets , walked first to St Mary's Loch and then along the course of ...
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)
Moorman suggests that Lucy may represent Wordsworth's romantic interest Mary Hutchinson, [A 2] but wonders why she would be represented as one who died. [24] It is possible that Wordsworth was thinking of Margaret Hutchinson, Mary's sister who had died. [25] There is no evidence, however, that the poet loved any of the Hutchinsons other than Mary.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.
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]
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.
Mary Moorman analysed the poem in 1965 with an emphasis on its biographical origins and Wordsworth's philosophy on the relationship between mankind and nature. When describing the beauty of the poem, she stated, "Wordsworth once spoke of the Ode as 'this famous, ambitious and occasionally magnificent poem'.