A Welsh legend goes something like “the one who sees the season’s first daffodil will have blessings of wealth in the new year”. The English poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) echoes the sentiment of ...

Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils.

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 ...

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 ...

Romanticism was a wave of literary expression that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Characterized by its emphasis on emotional and spiritual values as well as its deep ...

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 ...

When I was a child, a long time ago, I was forced to memorize this poem in its entirety, written by the British poet William Wordsworth. I had to memorize many things written by British people, since ...

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 ...

A website has been set up to monitor when the first daffodils of spring blossom in the Lake District. It was created so "virtual visitors" will know exactly when the flowers that inspired the poet ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Angelina Villa-Clarke is a London-based travel journalist. How Wordsworth would have viewed the clouds from Dove Cottage's gardens ...