Whitfield, P.: History of English Poetry (The) (Unabridged)

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1.   Foundations - 00:06:05
2.   Beowulf (8th - 11th century) - 00:04:51
3.   Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400) - 00:05:08
4.   Geoffrey Chaucer (cont.) - 00:05:00
5.   John Skelton (c. 1460 - 1529) - 00:06:57
6.   Sir Thomas Sackville (1536 - 1608); Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542) - 00:05:48
7.   Sir Thomas Wyatt (cont.); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517 - 1547) - 00:07:03
8.   The Elizabethan Achievement: Sir Walter Ralegh (1552 - 1618); Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) - 00:07:03
9.   Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) - 00:07:26
10.   George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634); Arthur Golding (c. 1536 - c. 1605); Richard Stanyhurst (1547 - 1618) - 00:05:28
11.   Samuel Daniel (1563 - 1619); Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631) - 00:06:03
12.   Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) - 00:05:43

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1.   The Elizabethan Achievement (cont.): William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) - 00:05:36
2.   William Shakespeare (cont.) - 00:06:17
3.   William Shakespeare (cont.) - 00:04:28
4.   William Shakespeare (cont.) - 00:04:34
5.   The 17th Century (From Donne to Milton): John Donne (1572 - 1631) - 00:07:52
6.   Thomas Carew (1595–1640); Richard Lovelace (1618–1657); John Cleveland (1613–1658); Edmund Waller (1606–1687) - 00:07:58
7.   Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) - 00:04:15
8.   George Herbert (1593 - 1633); Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695); Thomas Traherne (1637 - 1674); Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1649) - 00:06:53
9.   Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678) - 00:02:33
10.   John Milton (1608 - 1674) - 00:06:28
11.   John Milton (cont.) - 00:04:19
12.   John Marston (1576 - 1634) - 00:04:09

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1.   The 18th Century (From Dryden to Blake): Samuel Butler (1613 - 1680); John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680) - 00:05:50
2.   John Dryden (1631 - 1700) - 00:04:25
3.   John Dryden (cont.) - 00:04:53
4.   Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) - 00:06:48
5.   Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762); James Thomson (1700 - 1748) - 00:06:40
6.   Edward Young (1681 - 1765); Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) - 00:05:29
7.   Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811); James Macpherson (1736 - 1796) - 00:06:08
8.   Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784); Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774) - 00:04:01
9.   William Cowper (1731 - 1800); George Crabbe (1754 - 1832) - 00:05:56
10.   Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) - 00:03:53
11.   William Blake (1757 - 1827) - 00:05:43
12.   William Blake (cont.) - 00:05:38

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1.   The Romantic Poets: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) - 00:06:52
2.   William Wordsworth (cont.) - 00:04:59
3.   Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) - 00:04:11
4.   Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.); Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) - 00:05:01
5.   Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) - 00:05:28
6.   Lord Byron (cont.) - 00:06:15
7.   Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) - 00:05:48
8.   Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.) - 00:04:23
9.   John Keats (1795 - 1821) - 00:04:26
10.   John Keats (cont.) - 00:05:04
11.   John Clare (1793 - 1864) - 00:06:40
12.   The Poetry of the Victorian Age: Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) - 00:05:15
13.   Alfred Tennyson (cont.) - 00:06:17

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1.   The Poetry of the Victorian Age (cont.): Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) - 00:07:56
2.   Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) - 00:04:35
3.   Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) - 00:05:52
4.   Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883); George Meredith (1828 - 1909) - 00:04:43
5.   Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848); Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) - 00:05:02
6.   William Morris (1834 - 1896) - 00:03:07
7.   Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) - 00:05:07
8.   Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909) - 00:04:58
9.   Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) - 00:04:46
10.   Gerard Manley Hopkins (cont.) - 00:05:49
11.   Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) - 00:04:18
12.   A.E. Housman (1859 - 1936); Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) - 00:04:44
13.   Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) - 00:04:57

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1.   American Poetry: Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 - 1672); Edward Taylor (c. 1642 - 1729) - 00:06:59
2.   Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832); William Cullen Bryant (1794 - 1878) - 00:05:49
3.   Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) - 00:04:36
4.   Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) - 00:03:38
5.   Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) - 00:05:56
6.   Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) - 00:06:54
7.   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882); John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892) - 00:06:50
8.   Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881); Edward Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935) - 00:08:26
9.   Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) - 00:05:24
10.   Modernism: Introduction - 00:03:18
11.   William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) - 00:05:21
12.   James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915); Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) - 00:05:27
13.   Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918); Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918); Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) - 00:07:56

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1.   Modernism (cont.): T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) - 00:08:22
2.   W.H. Auden (1907 - 1972); Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963) - 00:04:17
3.   Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961); Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) - 00:05:09
4.   Edgar Lee Masters (1868 - 1950); Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931); Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) - 00:05:49
5.   E.E. Cummings (1894 - 1962); Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962); William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963) - 00:05:44
6.   Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955); Hart Crane (1899 - 1932) - 00:05:59
7.   Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) - 00:03:57
8.   Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953); John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) - 00:05:13
9.   Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985); Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998) - 00:05:27
10.   Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963); Ginsberg (1926 - 1997) - 00:03:53
11.   Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977) - 00:06:04
12.   Conclusion - 00:04:30
13.   The Essence of the Poetic Act - 00:04:33

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