Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonstrating the immense variety and emotional impact of English-language poetry, from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.
Chaucer - Ted Hughes
Old English
Chaucer 1340-1400
Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
Shakespeare 1564-1616
Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
Milton 1608-1674
Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
Wordsworth 1770-1850
Younger Romantics
Victorians 1837-1901
American Pioneers 1855-1910
Romantics and Realists
Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
Towards the Present 1934-1984
Persuasion
Dickinson
When the Weather Is Fine
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Affairs of a Drama Queen
Dear Sahmi
Mom Ped Sawan
A Poem A Day
Insubmissa
Filíocht Anois
The tiniest man in the world
Hachiro
En Sortant de L'École
Crash Course Literature
Poesia que Transforma
English
The Queen System
Spring Breeze Green Jiang Nan
Youths in the Breeze
亲亲我，老师