Have you ever wondered whether the idealized, unreachable beloved of the great classic poets really existed? What they were like in their everyday life? If they were really extraordinary or were made such by the magic created through words by the men they were loved and admired by? Michael Brown transformed one of those ideal figures, William Wordsworth's Lucy, into a real blood and flesh character in his historical novel. In William & Lucy he has created a passionate love story between the great Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, and Lucy, the beautiful girl to whom he dedicated a few of his most famous poems. Read my interview with Michael Brown.
William & Lucy is a tale of mystery and love inspired to William Wordsworth’s so called Lucy poems. Who was the woman the poet dedicated his poems to? Did she really exist?
All historical references to the Lucy of Wordsworth’s five LUCY poems are ambigious; there is no recorded history of such a young woman. Some scholars belive Lucy was the embodiement of William’s sister, Dorothy. There are other speculations but that is all they remain. I took the literary license to creat a fictionalized version of Lucy; hoping it might ring true to the story.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love …