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The Lucy Collection PDF
The Lucy Collection PDF
The following poems are collectively known, in the world of Romantics studies, as Wordsworths Lucy poems,
although he did not write them as a group, never referred to them as such, and never published them as a group labeled
the Lucy poems. Yet because of their thematic and atmospheric similarities and because of their shared references to
Lucy, these 5 poems have long been referred to and studied collectively. Some scholars have suggested Lucy is meant
to represent Williams beloved sister Dorothy, based on a comment made by Coleridge (see note to poem #3).
Wordsworth also wrote a poem entitled Lucy Gray during the same period he wrote the first 3 Lucy poems, but that
poem is not considered one of the group.
(#1)
10
15
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25
(#2)
10
(#3)
(#4)
10
15
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25
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(#5)
10
15