Mark Jones wrote a meta-critical 1995 "Case Study in Literary Knowledge" about this set of poems concluding that their grouping is an editorial construct.  
Mark Jones wrote a meta-critical 1995 "Case Study in Literary Knowledge" about this set of poems concluding that their grouping is an editorial construct.  They were written during a winter the poet spent in Germany with his sister.  In the first the speaker, on his way to his lover's house, wonders would happen if she "should be dead."  In the second the title character is "A Maid whom there were none to praise" while the fourth is the only one that doesn't include the title character's name and is entitled "A slumber did my spirit seal."  For 10 points - identify this series of poems about a young woman written by William Wordsworth.
Mark Jones wrote a meta-critical 1995 "Case Study in Literary Knowledge" about this set of poems concluding that their grouping is an editorial construct.  
The Lucy Poems