I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
A hand-written manuscript of the poem (1804). British Library Add. MS 47864

"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 belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. Written in 1804, this 24-line lyric was first published in 1807 in Poems, in Two Volumes, and revised in 1815.

In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 Bookworm programme to determine the UK's favourite poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud came fifth. Often anthologised, it is now seen as a classic of English Romantic poetry, although Poems, in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries.

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