Arrows Of Desire

All Episodes 2002

  • Ended
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  • 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
  • 6m
  • 6m (1 episode)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary, Special Interest
Arrows of Desire looks at a broad range of English-language poetry, from Sir Thomas Wyatt's embittered love poem 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke' to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 'History of the Airplane'.

12 episodes

Series Premiere

2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x01 Programme 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Programme 1

  • 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z6m

Blake, Carroll, Cummings, Tennyson

1x02 Programme 2

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MacNeice, Frost, Lear, Williams

1x03 Programme 3

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Causley, Betjeman, Shelley, Owen

1x04 Programme 4

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Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Auden, Dickinson

Season Premiere

2x01 Programme 5

Season Premiere

2x01 Programme 5

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The Ruined Maid, by Thomas Hardy Follower, by Seamus Heaney In Mrs Tilscher's Class, by Carol Ann Duffy Gipsies, by John Clare

2x02 Programme 6

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The Willing Mistress, by Aphra Behn An Irishman Foresees His Death by W B Yeats Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

2x03 Programme 7

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The Flea, by John Donne A Letter from Marie Curie, by Lavinia Greenlaw Naming of Parts, by Henry Reed A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, by Walt Whitman

2x04 Programme 8

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Not Waving but Drowning, by Stevie Smith What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov Piano, by DH Lawrence From the Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde

Season Premiere

3x01 Programme 9

Season Premiere

3x01 Programme 9

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You will be hearing from us shortly by UA Fanthorpe This Living Hand, Now Warm And Capable by John Keats Front Lines / As The Crickets' Soft Autumn Hum by Gary Snyder Illuminations by Tony Harrison

3x02 Programme 10

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Sonnet 130: My Mistres eyes are nothing like the Sunne by William Shakespeare On the Farm by RS Thomas This is a Hymn by Lorna Goodison From Verses on the Death of Dr Swift by Jonathan Swift

3x03 Programme 11

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From Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria by Langston Hughes Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Cavendish The Arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath

3x04 Programme 12

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They fle from me that sometyme did me seke by Sir Thomas Wyatt From Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart In a Station of the Metro/Alba by Ezra Pound History of the Airplane by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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