Six Centuries of Verse

S1 E111984

Younger Romantics

Episode Synopsis

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'.

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Six Centuries of Verse

Younger Romantics

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Chaucer - Ted Hughes

Old English

Chaucer 1340-1400

Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600

Shakespeare 1564-1616

Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670

Milton 1608-1674

Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745

Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805

Wordsworth 1770-1850

Younger Romantics

Victorians 1837-1901

American Pioneers 1855-1910

Romantics and Realists

Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939

Towards the Present 1934-1984

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