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'On Wordsworth's Lucy'
Title: 'On Wordsworth's Lucy'
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2227 | Pages: 9.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
'On Wordsworth's Lucy'
'On Wordsworth's Lucy'
Tadeush Novak
I must begin this short essay by outlining the main points of the debate about the "Lucy Poems." Wordsworth composed three of them late in 1798 and published them one after the other, each of them untitled, in the 1800, 1802, and 1805 Lyrical Ballads: these were 'Strange fits of passion I have known,' 'She dwelt among th'untrodden ways,' and 'A slumber did my spirit seal.' They are all concerned with love and grief; …showed first 75 words of 2227 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2227 total…p. 75. (back)
(5) George Lyttelton, 'Poems,' A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, ed. Robert Anderson, 13 vols. (Edinburgh, 1792-5) vol. 10, p. 248. (back)
(6) William Wordsworth, 'Essay upon Epitaphs, II,' vol. II, p. 75. (back)
(7) William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Letters II: The Middle Years Part I, 1806-1811, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, 2nd ed., rev. Mary Moorman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979) vol. II, p. 419. (back)
(8) Hester Lynch Thrale, Thraliana, ed. Katharine C. Balderston, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942) vol. I, p. 114. (back)
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