William Wordsworth - LIVE IN EASTBOURNE

Rob, what, if anything, do you know of William Webber?

Well, not very much.

Obviously, when I was about 17, I memorized daffodils so I could have that, you know, in my arsenal of memorized things.

Right, so

you did that of your own accord?

I did that of my own accord, you know.

And can you still remember it?

Yes, but I won't perform it.

That would be dreadful for everybody involved.

So, yeah, and I would probably stumble and go,

oh, no,

fuck, what was it again? Something,

you know, but yes, probably.

But other than that, yeah, I vaguely sense that he's an early 19th century poet who was a friend of Coleridge, who was responsible for, you know, the father of the Romantic movement, who was born or lived in Cumbria, in the Lake District? And oh, a shake of a head from a true Cumbrian there.

Ah, judge's ruling there, not Cumbria at the time.

Okay, but nevertheless, Cumbria now.

So other than that, really, I'm almost completely ignorant.

Obviously, I was hoping to gen up a little bit ahead of this podcast recording.

But you know, I'm going to play as I normally do the, the, you know, the proxy for the audience.

hopefully because I know hopefully as little as the least educated person here and so I'm very keen to learn so yeah not very much I've read probably over the years half a dozen words with poems none of which have really imprinted themselves on my back brain but one or two lines may be familiar I've certainly

by the

way never read any of these poems

I do know upon Westminster Bridge, which we're going to do later, but the other two I don't know at all.

Yeah, no, I went to the Lake District recently and went to Wordsworth's cottage, and so I know that much about it.

But no, I mean, just in the last little bit of time, I've been trying to get to grips with it a bit, but I don't know that much about Wordsworth at all, apart from I've always liked the poem upon Westminster Bridge.