<P> Even Wordsworth's close friend Coleridge said (referring especially to the "child - philosopher" stanzas VII and VIII of "Intimations of Immortality") that the poems contained "mental bombast". Two years later, however, many were more positive about the collection . Samuel Rogers said that he had "dwelt particularly on the beautiful idea of the' Dancing Daffodils"', and this was echoed by Henry Crabb Robinson . Critics were rebutted by public opinion, and the work gained in popularity and recognition, as did Wordsworth . </P> <P> Poems in Two Volumes was savagely reviewed by Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review (without, however, singling out "I wandered lonely as a Cloud"), but the Review was well known for its dislike of the Lake poets . As Sir Walter Scott put it at the time of the poem's publication, "Wordsworth is harshly treated in the Edinburgh Review, but Jeffrey gives...as much praise as he usually does", and indeed Jeffrey praised the sonnets . </P> <P> Upon the author's death in 1850, The Westminster Review called "I wandered lonely as a Cloud" "very exquisite". </P> <P> The poem is presented and taught in many schools in the English - speaking world: these include the 7th grade of most schools of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), India; the English Literature GCSE course in some examination boards in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland; and in the current Higher School Certificate syllabus topic, Inner Journeys, New South Wales, Australia . It is also frequently used as a part of the Junior Certificate English Course in Ireland as part of the Poetry Section . In The Middle Passage, V.S. Naipaul refers to a campaign in Trinidad against the use of the poem as a set text because daffodils do not grow in the tropics . </P>

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