This introductory programme establishes the continuity and variety of poetry over six centuries, touching on differen...

A look at the poetry composed between the mid-seventh century and the Norman Conquest, including Julian Glover's read...

Chaucer was the first great named poet in English. This programme focuses on The Canterbury Tales, with a reading of ...

This programme explores the late Medieval period leading into the Renaissance, discussing poems dealing with love, de...

A chronological look at Shakespeare's dramatic genius, using extracts from eight plays: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Tw...

The vigour and audacity of John Donne's love poetry is contrasted with his equally powerful devotional works. The pro...

Milton's dedication, his humanity and his blindness are all given illustration in Ian Richardson's reading of the son...

An overview of the great age of satire: among the works featured are Rochester's 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind...

This programme features excerpts from Jonathan Smart's 'Jubilate Agno', written in Bedlam, five poems by Blake, Coler...

'Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Daffodils', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal', and an extract from Book I of 'The Prelude' ...

Among the poems featured are Shelly's 'Ozymandias', 'The Mask of Anarchy' and 'Adonais'; Keats' 'La Belle Dame sans M...

The Victorian period of richly represented with extracts of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Bronte, Christina R...

Lee Remick reads Julia Ward Howe's 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' along with poems by Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Di...

This programme covers verse of the late Victorian period and the early twentieth century, with poems by Thomas Hardy,...

Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and Edward Thomas' 'Old Man' are among the featured poems, while Cyril Cusac...

Anthony Hopkins reads two of Dylan Thomas' most widely known poems, and Stacy Keach reads Robert Lowell's 'For the Un...