During summers at Penrith DW
met and became a friend of Mary Hutchinson
, who later became William's wife.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 79
A more intimate friend, with whom she had dreamed of escaping one day from...
Textual Features
Dorothy Wordsworth
Lanser
notes how she exploits the technique of irregularity to deal with moments of half-expressed emotion. Irregular Verses to the daughter of her childhood friend Jane Pollard
(about a lost dream of utopian retirement) uses...
