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Great Poets of the World

This insightful eight part series, Great Poets of the World, covers the greatest poets of the ages and their works from all over the world.
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Shakespeare's Poetry
  • Chapter 1 - Early Life
  • Chapter 2 - Venus and Adonis
  • Chapter 3 - The Rape of Lucrece
  • Chapter 4 - The Shakespearean Sonnet
  • Chapter 5 - The Fair Youth Sonnets: 1 - 126
  • Chapter 6 - The Dark Lady Sonnets: 127 - 154
  • Chapter 7 - The Legacy of Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Chapter 8 - Metaphysical Poetry
  • Chapter 9 - The Later Years
GPW-001 $27.50/yr
Spanish-language Poets
  • 1912 - Juan Ramon Jimenez and Antonio Machado, Fathers of Modern Spanish Poetry
  • 1929 - Federico Garcia Lorca Pens Poet in New York
  • 1947 - Pablo Neruda Establishes the Latin American Literary Voice
  • 1957 - Octavio Paz's Piedra de Sol
  • 1960 - Jorge Luis Borges, A Latin American Original
GPW-002 $27.50/yr
Poets of the European Continent
  • 1308 - 1321 - Dante's Divine Comedy
  • 1782 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Renaissance Man
  • 1857 - Charles Baudelaire, Father of the Symbolist Movement
  • 1902 - Rainer Maria Rilke Writes 'The Panther'
  • 1988 - Joseph Brodsky's To Urania is Published
GPW-003 $27.50/yr
English-language Poets: 8th Century A.D. - 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
GPW-004 $27.50/yr
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
GPW-005 $27.50/yr
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
GPW-006 $27.50/yr
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'
GPW-007 $27.50/yr
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 Basho, Haiku Master
  • 1923 - Kahlil Gibran Publishes The Prophet
GPW-008 $27.50/yr