“English-language Poets: 1923-Present” begins with the influence of W.H. Auden and Steven Spender in the 1930s, then moves into the Fifties with Gwendolyn Brooks, Dylan Thomas, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats (including Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg), and then into the 21st century with Seamus Heaney.
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.
