William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, read by Simon Russell Beale

Listen to Simon Russell Beale's lockdown reading of Wordsworth's poem

from The Sunday Times.


"The full life was not the enjoyment of a view, nor any kind of elegant gazing at a landscape, let alone sitting reading, but a kind of embodiment, plunging in, a full absorption in the encompassing world, providing the verbal life and 'nervous energy' that came from what Heaney would call 'touching territory that I know'."


Adam Nicolson, The Making of Poetry, Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels.