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-(p. 161) Lucy Gray
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-'Written at Goslar in Germany in 1799. It was founded on a circumstance told me by my Sister, of a little girl who, not far from Halifax in Yorkshire, was bewildered in a snow-storm. Her footsteps were traced by her parents to the middle of the lock of a canal, and no other vestige of her, backward or forward, could be traced. The body however was found in the canal. The way in which the incident was treated and the spiritualizing of the character might furnish hints for contrasting the imaginative influences which I have endeavoured to throw over common life with Crabbe's matter of fact style of treating subjects of the same kind.' [I.F.] Crabb Robinson records that Wordsworth said that his object in Lucy Gray 'was to exhibit poetically entire solitude, and he represents the child as observing the day-moon, which no town or village girl would ever notice'. [Diary, September 11th 1816.]
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-The poem was later given the title Lucy Gray, or Solitude. - In: Brett.
-== Ottava Notes ==
-===Hartman===
-Hartman, Geoffrey. ''Wordsworth's Poetry 1787-1814''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
--16 (after discussing "The Solitary Reaper"): In the Lucy poem, "Strange fits of passion," the moon dropping suddenly behind the cottage roof engenders a suddenly a thought of death, and if the poet mutes its implication (it is called "fond and wayward") the thought has some truth, as the ensuing poems telling of Lucy's death suggests. Is Wordsworth aggrandizing the prophetic character of ordinary perception or subduing an extraordinary perception? In "The Solitary Reaper," likewise, ordinary attention blends with a stronger awareness (call it imagination or revelation) as if the poet were afraid of distinguishing them too precisely.
-On "The Boy of Winander" (after discussing inwardness, reflecting over a grave, mourning "a prior mode of being but meditates on the necessity of a loss which leads into matured awareness"): This interpretation of the second paragraph accords with other considerations. The timing of the boy's death and the tone in which it is narrated reminds us strongly of the Lucy poems. Both Lucy and the Boy of Winander die before consciousness of self can emerge wholly from consciousness of nature. (Of the Lucy poems it would be more exact to say before the poet's consciousness of Lucy's individuated and mortal nature can emerge.) It is as if the Boy of Winander were fated to reach a developmental impasse.
--25 Entire section on "Strange Fits of Passion"
--162 Lucy poems as a whole
-"Peele Castle," therefore, repeats in an open and personal way the thought of radical loss haunting the Lucy and Matthew Poems.
--377 Bibliography of other works on Lucy.
-I'll provide more details on those sections via email if needed. I'll add in information from the two big sections on my own now. [[User:Ottava Rima|Ottava Rima]] ([[User talk:Ottava Rima|talk]]) 15:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC)