Six Centuries of Verse
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First Air DateMay 02, 1984
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ProductionThames Television
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Rotten tomato60%
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Original titleSix Centuries of Verse
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ReleaseMay 02, 1984
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Overview
Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonstrating the immense variety and emotional impact of English-language poetry, from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.
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Casts
Season 1 ( 1984-05-02)
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
