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e.e. cummings: An American Original
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The Harvard-educated writer, who preferred to sign his name in all lower case, is known the eccentricity of the typography and punctuation he employed to reinforce the rhythm and meaning of words. His poems truly leap off the page when performed aloud. This program, which celebrated the beauty of the individual, is set in a re-creation of New York's Greenwich Village, where e.e. cummings lived for nearly forty years.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe was truest to his heart a poet. He has blessed American literature with some of the most striking and moving imagery ever created. His phrasing and lyricism have forever changed the landscape of poetic verse. Includes “The Conqueror Worm”, “To My Mother”, “Israfel”, “Annabel Lee”, “The City in the Sea”, “Eldorado”, “To Helen”, “The Haunted Palace”, “Evening Star”, and “The Raven”.
Emily Dickinson
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Julie Harris takes viewers into Emily Dickinson's everyday world in a small New England town to couple and contrast facts about the poet with her extraordinary, original insights. Dickinson's reclusive life in her father's Mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, meant that she wrote almost all of her remaining work in this house. From cellar to cupola, we invoke her "certain slant of light" (her real and imagined perspectives). Other locations are Amherst College, Mount Holyoke Seminary (now College), the town cemetery next door to her childhood home, and commanding views on or near the shores of the Connecticut River. The paradox of the poet at home with limitless imagination, is announced early in her stunning poem,"The Brain is Wider than the Sky."
The Glorious Romantics
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A collection of poetry from John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Flannery O'Connor
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Flannery O’Connor is often likened to Faulkner for her portrayal of the character and lifestyle of the South, Kafka for her fascination with the bizarre, and Beckett for her dark humor—comparisons that underscore the fact that her voice has a unique place in the canon of American literature. This program provides a biographical sketch of O’Connor that illuminates her efforts to come to terms with what she perceived as the fundamental absurdity of the human condition while never shying away from incendiary social issues. Readings from Wise Blood, “The Displaced Person,” “The River,” “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” and “Revelation” are included.
Ruben Dario
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Considered by many as the first Modernist poet to write in Spanish, Rubén Darío is a major 20th-century literary figure by any reckoning. This program explores his life and work, with attention to both verse and prose achievements. Identifying Azul as the genesis of Spanish-language Modernism, the video also explores Darío’s Profane Hymns, which established his prominence among Latin American poets of the period. His horror story Thanatopia, his journalistic work for La Nación, his pacifist efforts prior to World War I, and his service as a diplomat are discussed as well—reflecting Darío’s importance in a time of political and artistic upheaval.
Famous Authors: The Brontë Sisters
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The English Brönte family, originally of Irish descent, produced three 19th century novelists: Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The three grew up in a torrid girls' school with living conditions that led to the death of two elder sisters. The children developed their literary talents in the Yorkshire moors after leaving the Cowan Bridge School. Charlotte worked as a governess and as a teacher at the school of Constantine Héger where she and Emily studied. She based many of the scenes in Villette on her frustrating experiences there. Charlotte also published a volume of poetry done by three sisters under pen names. She is best known for Jane Eyre, which achieved spectacular success. Emily is generally considered the best writer of the three. Wuthering Heights, which skeptics attribute to her brother, is her best known work. She also published such poems as The Prisoner, Remembrance and The Visionary. Anne, the least heralded of the writers wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wilfred Hall, which critics said would not be remembered were it not for her sisters.
Famous Authors: George Orwell
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English novelist, essayist, and critic, Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) was born in India where his father was in the civil service. He won a scholarship to Eton but was financially unable to go on to Oxford or Cambridge. Instead he spent five years with the Imperial Police in Burma. His experiences there provided the background for his Burmese Days, an attack on British Imperialism. Homage to Catalonia expresses Orwell's disillusionment during the Spanish Civil War, in which he fought on the Republican side. After this point, Orwell said all of his writings were directed against totalitarianism in all forms. This commitment is manifest in his two greatest novels, Animal Farm and 1984.
Famous Authors: Ernest Hemingway
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Enigmatic and intriguing, Hemingway is one of America's favorite authors. His dramatic understatement, dialogue and use of heroes made for great human interest. Hemingway's writing was influenced by his tenure as a foreign war correspondent; A Farewell to Arms and To Have and Have Not are excellent literary results of this experience. He is also known for The Old Man and the Sea which was derived from his time spent in Cuba. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but stricken with physical maladies, he published nothing more of significance before his suicide in 1961.
Hal Holbrook In Mark Twain Tonight!
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Television history was made on March 6, 1967 when an audience of over 30 million viewers tuned in to watch the first television broadcast of Hal Holbrook’s landmark one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight! The 90-minute special was a tour de force, and was acclaimed as one of the high points in television history. Most startling is the freshness of Twain’s stinging commentary on politics, the art of lying, religion, patriotism, slavery, and Man’s notion that he is the Creator’s pet. Holbrook seems to improvise his way through the gold mine of Twain’s writing, stitching it together from many sources, allowing us to see into the heart and soul of the great humorist at 70.
Jane Austen (Great Women Writers)
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The English author Jane Austen lived from 1775 to 1817. Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their serious underlying qualities. Austen wrote six major novels including "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", and "Emma". Her other writings consist of plays, verses, short novels, and a virtual cornucopia of literary expressions. These works are collected into three volumes, all three of which are an extravagant display of Austen's wit and literary genius.
Emily Dickinson (Great Women Writers)
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The American poet Emily Dickinson decided against publishing her poems, and during her lifetime only seven of her works were ever published. During the Civil War she wrote over 800 poems, many of which were not completed and written on scraps of paper. The later years of her life were primarily spent in mourning due to the numerous deaths among her family and friends. At her death she left behind over 2000 poems. As a result of Emily Dickinson's life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than other authors of her time.
The Brontë Sisters (Great Women Writers)
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Emily Brönte was born in England in 1818. Emily's only close friends were her brother Branwell and her sisters Charlotte and Anne. Emily began writing poems at an early age and published twenty-one of them, together with poems by Anne and Charlotte. The slim volume only sold two copies, and the failure led all three to begin work on novels: Emily on Wuthering Heights, Charlotte on Jane Eyre, and Anne on Agnes Grey. Emily died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty, and never knew the great success of her only novel Wuthering Heights.
Great Writers: Jack London
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Jack London (1876-1916), was born in San Francisco. After completing grammar school, he worked at various odd jobs. In 1897 and 1898, London participated in the Alaska gold rush, and upon his return to the San Francisco area, he began to write about his experiences. A collection of his short stories, The Son of the Wolf, was published in 1900. Many of his stories, including his masterpieces, The Call Of The Wild (1903), deal with the reversion of a civilized creature to the primitive state.
John Steinbeck (Great Writers)
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California and educated at Stanford University. As a youth, he worked as a ranch hand and fruit picker. His novel, Cup of Gold (1929), romanticizes the life and exploits of the famous 17th century Welsh pirate, Sir Henry Morgan. In The Pastures of Heaven (1932), a group of short stories depicting a community of southern California farmers, Steinbeck first dealt with the hardworking people and social themes associated with most of his works. Steinbeck's most widely known work is The Grapes of Wrath.
Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald is a one man show that tells the story of the great novelists life and works and the fascinating people who passed through his world, the characters in his novels. A compelling human drama, rich with laughter and tears. Starring: Larry Vanderveen.
Roald Dahl: The Making of Modern Children's Literature
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Everyone knows that Roald Dahl’s stories for children – James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Matilda – are special. But the quality that makes them unique is difficult to define. Dahls appealed to the disgusting side of children’s imaginations, and although critics cite his stories as ‘dark’, ‘subversive’ and ‘diseased’, children world-wide continue to love Dahl’s work. (Educationalists have failed to have his books banned). This profile looks at the influences that made his vivid writings and magical tales so convincing. Family and friends describe his complicated, and very public, private life and read from his many children’s books.
J.R.R. Tolkien
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This film tells the story of John Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced his writing. These factors stimulated him to provide a context in which his own, invented languages might be spoken-an imaginary land called Middle-earth.
Augustan Poets
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This enlightening guide to the work of the Augustan Poets includes the works of the poets Alexander Pope and John Dryden. Powerful readings and authentic filmed recreations combine to place the poets and their work in historical context. Themes such as prejudice, contempt, and the use of satire within poems are analyzed and explained.
Romantic Poets
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As superb study of the poets of the Romantic period, featuring the works of Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Coleridge and others. This informative program is a perfect introduction to the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century which was responsible for a revival of interest in medieval romance, the supernatural, and the mystery of life.
Victorian Poets
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Features the works of favorite Victorian poets, including Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and others. This fascinating program provides a revealing look into the great works of this period, plus filmed reconstructions which depict life during the Victorian Era. It also gives the modern viewer a unique look at a school of poetry which was, foremost, a reflection of its time.
Balzac
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In 1815, the Battle of Waterloo ended the Napoleonic age and restored the Bourbon monarchy to the throne of France. But the revolutionary spirit of 1789 refused to disappear, and the next decades saw France bitterly divided between conservative and revolutionary factions. This divided age produced some of the greatest achievements in French painting and literature. Featuring reconstructions of Balzac's life, Interpretation and analysis by Graham Robb, the leading authority on Balzac's life, Dr. Michele Hannoosh of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge and Dr. Richard Bolter of Bristol University.
Dante- The Divine Comedy
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A powerful introduction to the greatest work of medieval literature, which draws upon new dramatic filmed sequences, contemporary images and the work of artists inspired by Dante's epic voyage of the imagination. This stirring film provides the ideal starting point for the study of this major work. Entertaining and informative, Dante and the Divine Comedy will inspire viewers to want to study this work.
Mark Twain
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Considered the funniest man of his time, Mark Twain was a critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed, and racism. As America's best-loved author, he created some of its most memorable characters and quoted sayings. Director Ken Burns digs beneath the legend to discover the true Twain and reveals his extraordinary life, filled with adventure and literary pursuit, incredible success and defeat, comedy, and tragedy
   
 

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