Six Centuries of Verse

Season 1, Episode 13: American Pioneers 1855-1910

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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'.

All Episodes - Season 1

Chaucer - Ted Hughes
Episode 1
Chaucer - Ted Hughes
 Old English
Episode 2
Old English
 Chaucer 1340-1400
Episode 3
Chaucer 1340-1400
 Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
Episode 4
Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
 Shakespeare 1564-1616
Episode 5
Shakespeare 1564-1616
 Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
Episode 6
Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
 Milton 1608-1674
Episode 7
Milton 1608-1674
 Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
Episode 8
Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
 Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
Episode 9
Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
 Wordsworth 1770-1850
Episode 10
Wordsworth 1770-1850
 Younger Romantics
Episode 11
Younger Romantics
 Victorians 1837-1901
Episode 12
Victorians 1837-1901
 American Pioneers 1855-1910
Episode 13
American Pioneers 1855-1910
 Romantics and Realists
Episode 14
Romantics and Realists
 Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
Episode 15
Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
 Towards the Present 1934-1984
Episode 16
Towards the Present 1934-1984
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