Forbidden love among daffodils

BIOGRAPHY: The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth By Frances Wilson, Faber & Faber, 300pp. £18.99 'I wandered lonely as a cloud," begins William Wordsworth's best-known poem - only he wasn't alone. His sister Dorothy was with him when they came upon the daffodils beside the lake, and it was she who devised the metaphor of the flowers tossing their heads and dancing in the breeze. Login or subscribe for more.

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