1. Upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning: silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky,
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
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37. These photographs were taken over a Bedford Square and Georgian London to
three year period for a book commis- the historic monuments of Greenwich
sioned by Rizzoli NY. and the new city rising in the docklands.
This is a small selection of my favourite These photographs capture
images. every aspect of London, from the
Many people gave advice and help in distinctive beauty of the Royal parks
terms of ideas and access to buildings to the formal splendor of Whitehall, and
from strategic rooftops to little known from the London Eye and the Houses of
interiors. However, many were taken Parliament to the streetscapes of
from street level some planned and Spitalfields unchanged for centuries.
prepared for and some by serendipity.
Following the path of the river, the richard@richardbryant.co.uk
viewer journeys across London, from www.richardbryant.co.uk.
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