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'On Wordsworth's Lucy'

Date Submitted: 02/09/2004 00:42:51
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 8 pages (2117 words)
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'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 …

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…'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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