2. Was published shortly before her death
Some sources say it was as soon as 8 days before her death, others say it was about a month
Is the only major collection that was grouped with a specific theme and formal focus
Many of the poems were previously published in newspapers and periodicals
Only instance of Robinson revising her poems to fit a different audience from the periodical audience

3. Differences One of the poems created specifically for Lyrical Tales
The others are “The Trumpeter,” “The Widow’s Home,” and “The Shepherd’s Dog”
Used this particular poem to explore the anxieties of her second-class condition in the social order, mainly living under the power of exploitative male authority.
She seems to revel in the gore and plays up the treatment of women as victims in the Gothic narrative.
Similarities to Coleridge’s “Rime”
Use of the supernatural
Punishment for crimes
Differences
Shorter, by a lot
Coleridge depicted a world ruled by implacable and largely senseless forces, Robinson creates more conventional plots

4. Was originally published in the Morning Post on March 13, 1800
Robinson takes a familiar trope related to war and amplifies it
This one deals with the effects of war on families and death
Similarities to “Michael”
Deals with the destruction of families, though in different ways
Nature and religious imagery throughout
Buildings represent more than what they are
Differences
Doesn’t take the wandering path
Wasn’t as much distance between reader and the subject of the poem
Nature was not the main point of the poem