"""I wandered lonely as a cloud"" is William Wordsworth's poem about?"
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud "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. In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 "Bookworm" programme
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud to determine the nation's favourite poems, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" came fifth. Often anthologised, the poem is commonly seen as a classic of English romantic poetry, although "Poems in Two Volumes", in which it first appeared, was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries. The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk: At the time he wrote the poem, Wordsworth was living