Wordsworth's daffodils are under a cloud. Credit : Photo: MARTIN POPE The “host of golden daffodils” that inspired the Romantic poet were a native species of the flower narcissus pseudonarcissus.

Before Wordsworth and the Romantic poets, ... "Daffodil," the online Oxford English Dictionary says, is a variant of "affodill," with the initial d insufficiently accounted for.

Lake District daffodils immortalised in the romantic poetry of William Wordsworth are in danger of being overrun by a more common variety.

THE host of golden daffodils that inspired William Wordsworth to write I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud may be lost forever unless a predatory rival is erased from the shore of Ullswater.

Wordsworth was born 250 years ago this week, on April 7th, 1770. It was 32 years and a week later, during another April, that he saw the now immortalised bank of daffodils as he walked near ...

Their golden blooms inspired William Wordsworth to compose his best-known poem. Now, two hundred years after the poet wandered lonely as a cloud, the Lakeland daffodils he made world famous are to ...

Others who have written about daffodils include Shakespeare and Wordsworth, both British poets who were likely surrounded by these cheerful flowers each spring. Daffodils, ...

Anyone who read William Wordsworth's 1804 poem "Daffodils," has that vision in mind. I wander'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host ...

Forget daffodils, William Wordsworth also had much to say about trees Updated / Friday, 4 Nov 2022 16:00 The yew tree in Muckross Abbey, Co Kerry which took Woodsworth's fancy.

On April 15, 1802, the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy were enjoying a spring walk through the hills and vales of the English Lake District when they came across a field of daffodils.

Grasmere has a booming tourist industry focused on William Wordsworth, daffodils, and Grasmere Gingerbread, an iconic shop that sells famous gingerbread all over the UK and the world.