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NOTES

MICHAEL

The poem was composed in 1800, and published in the second volume of the Lyrical Ballads in the same year.  “Written at the Town-end, Grasmere, about the same time as The Brothers.  The Sheep-fold, on which so much of the poem turns, remains, or rather the ruins of it.  The character and circumstances of Luke were taken from a family to whom had belonged, many years before, the house we lived in at Town-end, along with some fields and woodlands on the eastern shore of Grasmere.  The name of the Evening Star was not in fact given to this house, but to another on the same side of the valley, more to the north.”