Six Centuries of Verse
Season 1, Episode 15: Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
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Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and Edward Thomas' 'Old Man' are among the featured poems, while Cyril Cusack reads a selection of poems by W.B. Yeats, and Ian Richardson and Isla Blair give voices to an excerpt from Eliot's 'The Waste Land'.
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