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
6.00 400 minutes 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.
