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But it never went away. This morning:
How did Wordsworth's lyric "I wandered lonely as a cloud", better known as "Daffodils", become so famous? When it was first collected in Poems (1807), an anonymous reviewer in The Satirist or Monthly Meteor could hardly contain himself. Swiping backwards at the Lyrical Ballads, which had first appeared nine years earlier, he decided "these [new] poems would have been more appropriately invested with a fine gilt wrapping, adorned with woodcuts, and printed and bound uniformly in all respects with Mother Bunch's tales and Mother Goose's melodies".
But it never went away. This morning:
A quarter of a million school kids in the UK broke the world record for a mass poetry recital on Friday.
They began their school day by reading William Wordsworth's poem Daffodils, 200 years since it was first written.
The event, called Words Worth Reading, was trying to interest kids in poetry, and was led by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion from a school in North London.
The reading was also set up to help charity Marie Curie Cancer Care, which uses the daffodil as its symbol.
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