… his reading of John Keats’ “Ode To A Nightingale” is goddam phenomenal.

Seriously.  Listen to it.  It’s the first piece featured in the below BBC America article, “10 British Actors Read 10 British Poems,” which was sent along to me by a close friend. (October 2nd was National Poetry Day in England.)

If you became a fan of Cumberbatch, as I did, because of his role as the (ostensibly) detached “Sherlock,” it can seem strange hearing him do such an emotional reading here.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/10/world-poetry-day-10-british-actors-read-10-british-poems/