Dorothy Wordsworth
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Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. Dorothy Wordsworth had no
Drawing of Dorothy Wordsworth in middle age
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, wh
Dorothy Wordsworth
…Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (15 April 1802) In his poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," William describes what appears to be the shared experience in the journal as his own solitary observation. Dorothy's observations and descriptions…
A hand-written manuscript of the poem (1804). British Library Add. MS 47864
Ullswater in the English Lake District. Ullswater from Gobarrow Park by J. M. W. Turner, watercolour, 1819. Gobarrow Park is on the north side of Ullswater, so Wordsworth's daffodils would have been on the nearer shore – near the cows perhaps?
Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the "daffodil" native to the Lake District
The title page of Poems, in Two Volumes