Six Centuries of Verse
Season 1, Episode 14: Romantics and Realists
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This programme covers verse of the late Victorian period and the early twentieth century, with poems by Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley, A.E. Houseman and Rudyard Kipling.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Chaucer - Ted Hughes
Episode 2
Old English
Episode 3
Chaucer 1340-1400
Episode 4
Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
Episode 5
Shakespeare 1564-1616
Episode 6
Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
Episode 7
Milton 1608-1674
Episode 8
Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
Episode 9
Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
Episode 10
Wordsworth 1770-1850
Episode 11
Younger Romantics
Episode 12
Victorians 1837-1901
Episode 13
American Pioneers 1855-1910
Episode 14
Romantics and Realists
Episode 15
Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
Episode 16
Towards the Present 1934-1984