Season
- Season 1 1984-05-02
Episode
- Episode 1: Chaucer - Ted Hughes
- Episode 2: Old English
- Episode 3: Chaucer 1340-1400
- Episode 4: Medieval - Elizabethan 1400-1600
- Episode 5: Shakespeare 1564-1616
- Episode 6: Metaphysical and Devotional 1590-1670
- Episode 7: Milton 1608-1674
- Episode 8: Restoration and Augustan 1660-1745
- Episode 9: Romantic Pioneers 1750-1805
- Episode 10: Wordsworth 1770-1850
- Episode 11: Younger Romantics
- Episode 12: Victorians 1837-1901
- Episode 13: American Pioneers 1855-1910
- Episode 14: Romantics and Realists
- Episode 15: Early Twentieth Century 1914-1939
- Episode 16: Towards the Present 1934-1984
Six Centuries of Verse Season 1 Towards the Present 1934-1984
Sir John Gielgud is joined by an outstanding repertory of actors in this pioneering, imaginative series demonstrating the immense variety and emotional impact of English-language poetry, from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era.
