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
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
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
…I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils") 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, when they saw a "long…
Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
Wordsworth's birthplace in Cockermouth, Cumbria
Wordsworth in 1798, about the time he began The Prelude.
Dove Cottage (Town End, Grasmere) – home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1799–1808; home of Thomas De Quincey, 1809–1820