Lucy Gray: Difference between revisions

''Lucy Gray'' is generally not included with Wordsworth's [[Lucy (poems)|"Lucy" poems]],<ref>Jones 1995 p. ix</ref> even though it is a poem that mentions a character named Lucy.<ref name="Jones p. 9"/> The poem is excluded from the series because the traditional "Lucy" poems are uncertain about the age of Lucy and her actual relationship with the narrator, and ''Lucy Gray'' provides exact details on both.<ref>Jones 1995 p. 11</ref> Furthermore, the poem is different thanfrom the "Lucy" poems in that it relies on narrative storytelling<ref>Jones 1995 p. 77</ref> and is a direct imitation of the traditional 18th century ballad form.<ref>Stork 1914 p. 305</ref>