Back in the Day, he describes cycling there as a boy from his home town of Wigton and experiencing a kind of Wordsworthian epiphany (though he doesn’t call it that) as he watched the sun set over the Solway and felt himself part of the landscape.
Not just then and there, but inalienably. ‘I doubt if I had ever felt more complete,’ he writes. ‘I would come and seek out similar moments for the rest of my life.
This was life itself. I felt both helpless and in some way invulnerable.’On his wedding day, Bragg wore a marvellous floral waistcoat.
He’s a stylish, attentive dresser, often teased by shabbier friends for being so immaculately turned out. In a BBC Two documentary to mark his 75th birthday, he is seen walking his beloved fells in a proper coat.When we meet, his tall, lean frame is in ochre corduroy trousers, a blue sweater and brown shoes polished like conkers.
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