What's On UEN-TV
Great Poets of the World
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English-Language Poets 1895 - 1922Tuesday, April 16
1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.11899 – 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: 1831 - 1894Tuesday, April 9
1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.11845 – 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; 8th Century - 1830Tuesday, April 2
1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.18th 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. -
European PoetsTuesday, March 26
1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.11308-1321 – 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.’ -
Spanish PoetsTuesday, March 19
1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.11912 – 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; -
Poetry of ShakespeareTuesday, March 12
1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1This 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.