On the Wordsworth Trail
May 03, 2019
4 minutes
WORDS LAWRENCE ALEXANDER
On the evening of 15 April 1802, Dorothy
Wordsworth, sister of the poet William, wrote her journal as usual. They had enjoyed a wonderful day. Walking home from visiting friends, the pair had passed through Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, and witnessed a now-famous sight.
Dorothy recalled that the daffodils “tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake”. That day became a seed for one of the most famous poems in the English language: William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, written in 1804.
Although well-travelled, Wordsworth never ceased to be inspired
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