Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Chaucer - Ted Hughes
- Season 1 Old English
- Season 1 Chaucer 1340-1400
- Season 1 Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
- Season 1 Shakespeare 1564-1616
- Season 1 Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
- Season 1 Milton 1608-1674
- Season 1 Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
- Season 1 Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
- Season 1 Wordsworth 1770-1850
- Season 1 Younger Romantics
- Season 1 Victorians 1837-1901
- Season 1 American Pioneers 1855-1910
- Season 1 Romantics and Realists
- Season 1 Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
- Season 1 Towards the Present 1934-1984
Six Centuries of Verse - Season 1 Episode 1 Chaucer - Ted Hughes
6.00 400 minutes 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.
