Question

Preface for the poem daffodils by William wordsworth

Answer 1

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.[4] Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account),[5] it was first published in 1807 in Poems, in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815.[6]

In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 Bookworm programme to determine the nation's favourite poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud came fifth.[7] 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.