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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...