TWO hundred years to the day since William Wordsworth and his sister saw the original 'host of golden daffodils' beside Ullswater, the Wordsworth Trust is to host a bicentenary celebration.
Writing in her journal for 1802 of a walk she and her brother had taken by the lake on April 15, Dorothy recorded: "I never saw daffodils so beautiful...they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing."
The sighting inspired Wordsworth's famous poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The bicentenary celebration at the Wordsworth Museum, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, on Monday, features trust director Robert Woof and his wife Pamela, editor of Dorothy's journals; Michael Donaghy, winner of the 2000 Forward Prize for Poetry; and the trust's poets-in-residence Paul Farley, Jack Mapanje and Jacob Polley.
A new book published by the trust to celebrate the daffodils poem will also be launched.
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