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Six Centuries of Verse(TV-Show/Serie, 1984)

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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.


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Six Centuries of Verse Staffeln und Folgen

02.05.1984Staffel 1 - 16 Folgen
#1 | 02.05.1984Episode 1 (Chaucer - Ted Hughes)
This introductory programme establishes the continuity and variety of poetry over six centuries, touching on different genres by using extracts from some of the many poems featured in the series - from Chaucer to Ted Hughes.
#2 | 09.05.1984Episode 2 (Old English)
A look at the poetry composed between the mid-seventh century and the Norman Conquest, including Julian Glover's reading of part of his own adaptation of the heroic epic Beowulf.
#3 | 16.05.1984Episode 3 (Chaucer 1340-1400)
Chaucer was the first great named poet in English. This programme focuses on The Canterbury Tales, with a reading of the introduction by Gary Watson and a detailed exploration of The Pardoner's Tale.
#4 | 23.05.1984Episode 4 (Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600)
This programme explores the late Medieval period leading into the Renaissance, discussing poems dealing with love, death and ambition by Skelton, Wyatt, Raleigh, Marlowe and Shakespeare.
#5 | 30.05.1984Episode 5 (Shakespeare 1564-1616)
A chronological look at Shakespeare's dramatic genius, using extracts from eight plays: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline and The Tempest.
#6 | 06.06.1984Episode 6 (Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670)
The vigour and audacity of John Donne's love poetry is contrasted with his equally powerful devotional works. The programme then explores the work of Donne's disciple George Herbert, and Andrew Marvell.
#7 | 13.06.1984Episode 7 (Milton 1608-1674)
Milton's dedication, his humanity and his blindness are all given illustration in Ian Richardson's reading of the sonnet to his dead wife, Katharine, while his eloquence is highlighted in Richardson's spectacular readings from Paradise Lost.
#8 | 20.06.1984Episode 8 (Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745)
An overview of the great age of satire: among the works featured are Rochester's 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind', Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel' and the mock-heroic 'MacFlecknoe', and Pope's masterpiece of mordant wit, 'The Dunciad'.
#9 | 21.10.1984Episode 9 (Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805)
This programme features excerpts from Jonathan Smart's 'Jubilate Agno', written in Bedlam, five poems by Blake, Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', and Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' - a fine example of "emotion recollected in tranquillity".
#10 | 28.10.1984Episode 10 (Wordsworth 1770-1850)
'Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Daffodils', 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Steal', and an extract from Book I of 'The Prelude' are among the poems read by Julian Glover; all were filmed in Wordsworth's native Lake District.
#11 | 04.11.1984Episode 11 (Younger Romantics)
Among the poems featured are Shelly's 'Ozymandias', 'The Mask of Anarchy' and 'Adonais'; Keats' 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' and 'To Autumn'; and part of Byron's 'Don Juan'.
#12 | 11.11.1984Episode 12 (Victorians 1837-1901)
The Victorian period of richly represented with extracts of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold and Agernon Charles Swinburne.
#13 | 18.11.1984Episode 13 (American Pioneers 1855-1910)
Lee Remick reads Julia Ward Howe's 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' along with poems by Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson; Stacy Keach reads poems by Walt Whitman and Herman Melville; John Gielgud recites Robinson's 'Miniver Cheevy'.
#14 | 25.11.1984Episode 14 (Romantics and Realists)
This programme covers verse of the late Victorian period and the early twentieth century, with poems by Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley, A.E. Houseman and Rudyard Kipling.
#15 | 02.12.1984Episode 15 (Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939)
Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and Edward Thomas' 'Old Man' are among the featured poems, while Cyril Cusack reads a selection of poems by W.B. Yeats, and Ian Richardson and Isla Blair give voices to an excerpt from Eliot's 'The Waste Land'.
#16 | 09.12.1984Episode 16 (Towards the Present 1934-1984)
Anthony Hopkins reads two of Dylan Thomas' most widely known poems, and Stacy Keach reads Robert Lowell's 'For the Union Dead'; poetry by Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes close the series.

Weitere Informationen

Produziert von: Thames Television
Originalsprache: Englisch (EN)
Gesprochene Sprachen: Englisch (EN), Latein (LA)
Übersetzt in 1 Sprache: Englisch (EN)
Produktionsstatus: Abgeschlossen
Erste Folge erschien am: 02.05.1984
Letzte Folge erschien am: 09.12.1984
Stichwörter: poetry

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