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Master Poets Collection I

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"…excellent. A reminder of how much poetry illumines and explains an age."
-Greensboro Record

"…delicious, superbly satisfying"
- Louisville Times

"A series to be treasured"
- Seattle Times

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Embracing and expressing the glory of the poetic phrase, this ongoing series from PBS provides biographical insight while showcasing the most important poems of each classic poet as poetry in performance featuring such stars as Claire Bloom and William Shatner.
The Master Poets Collection I

Robert Frost: New England in Autumn
A selection of Frost's poems chosen to suit a perfect New England autumn day. Performed by The First Poetry Quartet and filmed in the beautiful farm country of Massachusetts.

Spoon River Anthology
& A Poetic Portrait Gallery

William Shatner stars in this celebration of poetic portraits featuring excerpts from "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters.

William Shakespeare: A Poet for All Time
Filmed on Location in Stratford-on-Avon, celebrated Shakespearen actor Alan Howard presents some of the Bard's best known works.

The World of Emily Dickinson
The acclaimed Claire Bloom portrays Emily Dickinson in this dramatic presentation of her "letters to the world."

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The Master Poets Collection II

The Brontës
Influenced by a strong sense of family, the four Brontë children grew up in the confines of a parsonage home in the village of Haworth, but their poetic imaginations roamed far beyond their beloved Yorkshire moors.

Robert & Elizabeth Browning
One of the most celebrated of literary romances is explored in the setting of an apartment on Wimpole Street as distinguished actor Jack Gwillim and friends perform poems by Robert and Elizabeth Browning.

Scott, Tennyson & Kipling
Some of the best-loved British poems of the 19th centry: Lochinvar's defiance in carrying off his beloved, the tragic waste of the gallant six hundred in the Light Brigade, to the "finest man I ever knew" (Gunga Din).

Wordsworth & Coleridge
Through the beautiful Lake District,we visit Wordsworth's home at Dove Cottage, travel by carriage to the mountains above Ullswater, and wend our way by twilight to the lake at Grasmere.
Includes excerpts from Dorothy's journals and letters

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The Master Poets Collection III

e.e. cummings: An AmericanOriginal
This program, which celebrates the beauty of spring, the wonders of love and the triumph of the individual, is set in a re-creation of New York's Greenwich Village, where e.e. cummings lived for nearly forty years.

Sylvia Plath: Growth of Poet
"I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still." Through thirteen of her poems and excerpts from her letters, we follow the development of this gifted young American poet, who ended her life at the age of thirty.

Walt Whitman and the Civil War
From the historic battlefield at Gettysburg, distinguished actor Richard Kiley enacts poetry about the Civil War, poetry that spoke not only of the tragedy of the conflict, but also the promise of a young nation and its people.

So That's Where It's From
In this ideal introduction to poetry, guests play a lively game in which they explore familiar quotes and identify movie, song and book titles taken from nursery rhymes to The Bible, from Shakespeare to Ogden Nash.

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