A selection of poems compiled and introduced by Michael Flinch
Readers Mary Wimbush Gerald Cross and John Rowe
I like railway travelling much.' said Wordsworth in 1839. but when it was Proposed a few years later to construct the railway between Kendal and Windermere, he felt threatened:
. Is there no nook of English ground secure
From rash assault? -
He was unaware that the steam train would become a familiar theme in English poetry. Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
