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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]
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.
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.
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.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
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.
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.
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...