Wordsworth and polytunnels

July 14, 2010 The poetry of William Wordsworth does not lend itself naturally to legal argument but it is featuring in a courtroom battle over polytunnels, under which 90 per cent of Britain’s strawberries are grown. In 1798, Wordsworth wrote Tintern Abbey, a poem that celebrates the beauty of untamed nature in the Wye Valley. In an audio extract from the Today, novelist and Farmers Weekly journalist Tim Relf reflects on what Wordsworth might have written had he returned to find the valley as it is today.