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Great Poets of the World

Showcasing the lives and works of over 50 of the greatest poets from around the world, this eight part series takes you on a literary journey into the depths of the human soul. Shot on location, this series features scholarly interviews and dramatic poetry readings from Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Byron, Frost, Neruda, Gibran, and many more. Great Poets of the World illustrates why poetry, like no other literary form, has been part of the human experience since the dawn of time.

Great Poets of the World  
  • Spanish Poets
    Tuesday, April 22
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    1912 – Juan Ramón Jiménez and Antonio Machado, Fathers of Modern Spanish Poetry; 1929 – Federico Garcia Lorca Pens Poet in NY; 1947 – Pablo Neruda Establishes the Latin American Literary Voice; 1957 Octavio Paz’s Piedra de Sol; 1960 – Jorge Lui;
  • European Poets
    Tuesday, April 29
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    1308-1321 – Dante’s Divine Comedy; 1782 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Renaissance Man; 1857 – Charles Baudelaire, Father of the Symbolist Movement; 1905 – Rainer Maria Rilke Writes ‘The Panther.’
  • English-Language Poets; 8th Century - 1830
    Tuesday, May 6
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    8th Century A.D. – Beowulf; 1387-1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer Writes The Canterbury Tales; 1590 – Edmund Spenser Publishes The Faerie Queene; 1658 – John Milton Begins Paradise Lost; 1786 – Robert Burns’ Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; 1819 – Lord Byron Pens Don Juan; 1790 – 1830 – The Four Romantic Poets.
  • English-Language Poets: 1831 - 1894
    Tuesday, May 13
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    1845 – Edgar Allan Poe Publishes The Raven; 1850 – Wordsworth's Spiritual Autobiography; Ends 1850 – Alfred Lord Tennyson is Made Poet Laureate of England; 1852 – Emily Dickinson, America's Greatest Female Poet; 1855 – Walt Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass; 1855 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Writes The Song of Hiawatha; 1864 – The Brownings; 1894 – Robert Frost, America's Poet.
  • English-Language Poets 1895 - 1922
    Tuesday, May 20
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    1899 – Paul Laurence Dunbar's 'Sympathy'; 1914 – Carl Sandburg Publishes his poem Chicago; 1916 – W.B. Yeats, Father of the Irish Literary Revival; 1920 – e.e. cummings, Master of the Avant-Garde; 1921 – 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes; 1922 – T.S. Eliot, Intellectual Giant
  • English-Language Poets: 1923 - Present
    Tuesday, May 27
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    1937 – Auden and Spender, the '30s Poets; 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks, First Black Pulitzer Prize Recipient; 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Larger–Than– Life Poet, Dies; 1955 – Poet William Carlos Williams Publishes Journey to Love; 1956 – The Beat Poets; 2009 – Seamus Heaney Reads 'Digging'.
  • Poets of the Middle East and Asia
    Tuesday, June 3
    1:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    c. 756 A.D. – Li Bai and Du Fu, Chinese Masters; 1258 – Rumi and the Mystical Islamic Poetic Tradition; 1538 – Mira Bai, Indian Poet and Saint; 1686 – Matsuo Bashō, Haiku Master; 1923 – Khalil Gibran Publishes The Prophet.

 

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