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 13 American Pioneers 1855-1910
6.00 400 minutes Lee Remick reads Julia Ward Howe's 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' along with poems by Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson; Stacy Keach reads poems by Walt Whitman and Herman Melville; John Gielgud recites Robinson's 'Miniver Cheevy'.
