'On Wordsworth's Lucy' Tadeush Novak I must begin this short essay by outlining the main points of the debate about the "Lucy Poems." Wordsworth composed three of them late in 1798 and published them one after the other, each of them untitled, in the 1800, 1802, and 1805 Lyrical Ballads: these were 'Strange fits of passion I have known,' 'She dwelt among th'untrodden ways,' and 'A slumber did my spirit seal.' They are all concerned with …showed first 75 words of 2117 total…

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