Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Resources

If you ever need to look up a Wordsworth poem but don't have your "Collected Works" book handy (and why don't you?!), you can find all 800-something poems here.

Wordsworth wrote many of his most famous works at Dove Cottage, in the heart of the Lake District in England.

An old, black-and-white video about the experience of crossing the Westminster Bridge in modern times. Remember, though, that both the bridge and the surroundings looked completely different in Wordsworth's day.

A good British reading of the poem with an image of the original Westminster Bridge before it was replaced.

The first Westminster Bridge as it appeared to the Italian painter Canaletto in about 1746.

This biography by Stephen Gill explains how Wordsworth went from a "solitary visionary" to one of the most respected intellectuals in England.

Dorothy Wordsworth was an accomplished journal writer, and she wrote about the day she and her brother crossed the Westminster Bridge early in the morning.