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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Had William Wordsworth not been a poet, he could have earned his living as a landscape gardener, says Peter Elkington, curator of Rydal Mount, the house in the Lake District that was Wordsworth’s ...
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, ...
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 ...
The hand-written copy of I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud has gone on show at Wordsworth Grasmere, the museum at his former home of Dove Cottage. More commonly known as Daffodils, the poem was inspired by ...
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