Poetry of Shakespeare
UEN-TV 9.1
Past Show Times:
1:00 PM on Mar 12, 2024
This special one-hour program focuses exclusively on the life and poetry of the greatest poet of all time. No other documentary takes such an in-depth look at the sonnets and narrative poems of the man known simply as The Bard. This program includes dramatic readings and interviews with top Shakespearean experts as they illuminate Shakespeare's most prophetic and innovative poetic styles and achievements.
Spanish Poets
UEN-TV 9.1
Past Show Times:
1:00 PM on Mar 19, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Past Show Times:
1:00 PM on Mar 26, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
1:00 PM on Apr 2, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
1:00 PM on Apr 9, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
1:00 PM on Apr 16, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
1:00 PM on Apr 23, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
1:00 PM on Apr 30, 2024
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.