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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."

In a letter to Charles James Fox the poet says: "In the two poems, _The
Brothers_ and _Michael_, I have attempted to draw a picture of the
domestic affections, as I know they exist among a class of men who are
now almost confined to the north of England. They are small independent