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Train Songs Book
This is the night mail crossing the border Bringing the cheque and the postal order... (W.H. Auden). Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway'). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists and yet the train has become part of our psychic landscape: some of the best-loved English poems - Edward Thomas' "Adlestrop" or Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings" - have celebrated carriages platforms and waiting rooms while locomotion has inspired some of the most characteristic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Stevenson Hardy and MacNeice Betjeman and Auden (whose "Night Mail" was written to accompany a 1930s GPO … read more...
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