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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.
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)
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.
Mary Ann Moorman (née Boshart; born August 5, 1932) is an American woman who chanced to photograph US president John F. Kennedy a fraction of a second after he was fatally shot in the head in Dallas, Texas.
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]
Lucy is an isolated figure in which the narrator responds to her death. [5] 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]
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.
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]