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The entire household thus contributing to the poem. Mary contributed what Wordsworth later said were the two best lines in the poem, recalling the "tranquil restoration" of Tintern Abbey, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal Thursday, 15 April 1802Īt the time he wrote the poem, Wordsworth was living with his wife, Mary Hutchinson, and sister Dorothy at Town End, in Grasmere in England's Lake District. The Bays were stormy & we heard the waves at different distances & in the middle of the water like the Sea. There was here & there a little knot & a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity & unity & life of that one busy highway – We rested again & again. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed and reeled and danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing. When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore & that the little colony had so sprung up – But as we went along there were more & yet more & at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. Turner – Ullswater from Gobarrow Park, watercolor, 1819, Whitworth Art Gallery
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It was inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk: File:J M W Turner - Ullswater from Gobarrow Park.jpg Wordsworth would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804. The inspiration for the poem came from a walk he took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. Often anthologised, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is commonly seen as a classic of English romantic poetry, although Poems in Two Volumes was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries. In the "Nation's Favourite Poems", a poll carried out by the BBC's Bookworm, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" came fifth. It is generally considered Wordsworth's most famous work. Written some time between 18 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,