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 ...

Wordsworth'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 ...

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 ...