“Poets of the Middle East and Asia” begins with Chinese masters Li Bai and Du Fu in the early 1st century, then includes Rumi and the mystical Islamic poetic tradition, Mira Bai, Matsuo Basho and Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet.”
Great Poets of the World, an eight-part series, chronicles the greatest poets of the ages and their works – lyrical, spiritual and avant-garde. Beginning with a special one-hour episode about the poetry of William Shakespeare, the series moves to Spanish poets Jimenez, Machado, Lorca, Neruda, Paz and Borges; poets of the European continent Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Rilke and Brodsky; the poets who wrote in English from 1308 to the present (in four parts) from Chaucer to Heaney; and poets of the Middle East and Asia, including Rumi, Basho and Gibran.
