Their golden blooms inspired William Wordsworth to compose his best-known poem. Now, two hundred years after the poet wandered lonely as a cloud, the Lakeland daffodils he made world famous are to be ...

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The “host of golden daffodils” that inspired the Romantic poet were a native species of the flower narcissus pseudonarcissus. But the species is under threat from more common, larger species in the ...

ordsworth's best-known and arguably most ridiculous poem is "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," the one about the daffodils. When daffodils are blooming, it is impossible not to think of this ...

The manuscript was prepared for the printer over the winter of 1806-7 A manuscript of the William Wordsworth poem most associated with the Lake District has returned to Cumbria. The hand-written copy ...

THE host of golden daffodils that inspired William Wordsworth to write I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud may be lost forever unless a predatory rival is erased from the shore of Ullswater. For almost two ...

Analysis: trees serving as natural epitaphs again and again in the stories Wordsworth told about the sufferings and hopes of ordinary people Trees are inveterately rooted in the here and now, ...

For a poem synonymous with solitude, William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud was a surprisingly collaborative affair. It was not the product of a poetry workshop, exactly. But if three ...

A quarter of a million children started the day on Friday with the famous line "I wandered lonely as a cloud...". Those words of William Wordsworth rang out across the UK in a mass recital to ...

Their golden blooms inspired William Wordsworth to compose his best-known poem. Now, two hundred years after the poet wandered lonely as a cloud, the Lakeland daffodils he made world famous are to be ...