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Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
The first recorded mention of any of the "Lucy poems" (outside of notes by either William or Dorothy) occurred after the April 1799 death of Coleridge's son Berkeley. Coleridge was then living in Germany, and received the news through a letter from his friend Thomas Poole, who in his condolences mentioned Wordsworth's "A slumber":
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Lauren Camp, who lives in Sante Fe and is the New Mexico Poet Laureate. Lauren worked as a magazine editor for 12 years.
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
This poem was published anonymously, with only the honorific Sri in the byline. However, the annual index in the year-end issue of the magazine revealed his full name: "Sri Jibanananda Das Gupta, BA". In 1921, he completed the MA degree in English from University of Calcutta, obtaining a second class. He was also studying law.
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The poem was published in the October 1796 Monthly Magazine, [22] under the title Reflections on Entering into Active Life. A poem Which Affects Not to be Poetry. [23] Reflections was included in Coleridge's 28 October 1797 collection of poems and the anthologies that followed. [22] The themes of Reflections are similar to those of The Eolian Harp.
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