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Great Poets of the World

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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.

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• English-Language Poets: 1831 - 1894

  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.

  Length:	00:28:59
  Usage rights:	Expires 6/30/2027

• English-Language Poets 1895 - 1922

  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

  Length:	00:26:47
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• English-Language Poets: 1923 - Present

  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'.

  Length:	00:27:59
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• English-Language Poets; 8th Century - 1830

  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.

  Length:	00:28:56
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• Poets of the Middle East and Asia

  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.

  Length:	00:28:53
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