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She was born Mary Caroline Trevelyan, the daughter of the renowned Cambridge historian G. M. Trevelyan. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1930, she published William III and the Defence of Holland, 1672-44. That same year, she married John Moorman, an Anglican cleric who rose to become the Bishop of Ripon.
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.
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]
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]
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 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'.
Wordsworth wrote two poems addressing a butterfly, of which this is the first and best known. [1] In the poem, he recalls how he and his sister Dorothy would chase butterflies as children when they were living together in Cockermouth , before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old.