john mellencamp wrote i wandered lonely as a cloud.
john mellencamp wrote i wandered lonely as a cloud.
who wrote i wandered lonely as a cloud?
john mellencamp
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"i wandered lonely as a cloud" (also commonly known as "daffodils") is a lyric poem by william wordsworth. it is wordsworth's most famous work.









































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. written some time between 1804 and 1807 (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.
i wandered lonely as a cloud
"poems in two volumes" was savagely reviewed by francis jeffrey in the "edinburgh review" (without, however, singling out "i wandered lonely as a cloud"), but the "review" was well known for its dislike of the lake poets. as sir walter scott put it at the time of the poem's publication, "wordsworth is harshly treated in the "edinburgh review", but jeffrey gives ... as much praise as he usually does", and indeed jeffrey praised the sonnets.









































upon the author's death in 1850, "the westminster review" called "i wandered lonely as a cloud" "very exquisite".









































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