The Lucy Poems
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Reference4 articles.
1. Thomas de Quincey, Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets, ed. David Wright (Harmondsworth, 1970) p. 188.
2. Hugh Sykes Davies, in ‘Another New Poem by Wordsworth’ (Essays in Criticism, XV (1965) pp. 135–61) questions the validity of the grouping together of the Lucy poems, suggesting that it was a nineteenth-century idea. Other critics have argued that the poems should be taken together;
3. recent ones include James Taaffe, in ‘Poet and Lover in Wordsworth’s “Lucy” Poems’ (Modern Language Review, LXI (1966), pp. 175–9),
4. and Spencer Hall, in ‘Wordsworth’s “Lucy” Poems: Context and Meaning’ (Studies in Romanticism, X (1971) pp. 159–75).