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Profile: Estate of English poet William Wordsworth

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From: Morning Edition (NPR)
Date: 20010510
Author:BOB EDWARDS

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Profile: Estate of English poet William Wordsworth

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The 18th century English poet William Wordsworth drew much of his inspiration from plants. Probably his best-known poem is about a common bulb that blooms in spring. `I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high or vales and hill, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils.' There's a new book, "Wordsworth's Gardens, " describing the poet's relationship with his manmade ...

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