English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1123 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Lucy Poems
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The idea
The Lucy poems are five short lyrics, written mostly in Germany between seventeen ninety-eight and eighteen-oh-one, including "Strange Fits of Passion" and "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways." They mourn a girl who has died. Wordsworth never revealed who Lucy was; some critics conjecture Dorothy.
In practice
Five lyrics, an unknown girl.
Where people slip
Lucy's identity is unknown.
Your place on the trail
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