🖋️ When Were the Lucy Poems Written and Published?
🔹 Composition Period:
William Wordsworth wrote the Lucy Poems between 1798 and 1801, during a particularly productive phase of his early poetic career.
🔹 Context:
These poems were composed while Wordsworth was in Germany in the winter of 1798–1799, along with his sister Dorothy Wordsworth and close friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cold, isolation, and longing for home are believed to have influenced the melancholy tone of the poems.
📅 Individual Publication Details:
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“Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known”
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📆 Written: 1798
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📕 Published: 1800 in Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)
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“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
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📆 Written: 1798
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📕 Published: 1800 in Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)
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“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
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📆 Written: 1798
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📕 Published: 1800 in Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)
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“Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower”
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📆 Written: 1798–1799
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📕 Published: 1800 in Lyrical Ballads (2nd edition)
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“I Travelled Among Unknown Men”
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📆 Written: 1801
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📕 Published: 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes
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📚 First Collection:
The first four Lucy Poems were published anonymously in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800), a foundational text of English Romantic poetry by Wordsworth and Coleridge. The fifth poem appeared later in Wordsworth’s Poems in Two Volumes (1807).
