The Lucy poems

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The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a milestone in the early English Romantic movement. In the series, Wordsworth sought to write unaffected English verse infused with abstract ideals of beauty, nature, love, longing, and death. The "Lucy poems" consist of "Strange fits of passion have I known", "She dwelt among the untrodden ways", "A slumber did my spirit seal", "Three years she grew in sun and shower", which were all published in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800), and "I travelled among unknown men", which was published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Although they are presented as a series in modern anthologies, Wordsworth did not conceive of them as a group, nor did he seek...

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