Monitor · SEASON 7
Poet Laureate
Episode 14 · 1964-03-29
- Documentary
Episode overview
A fortnightly magazine of the arts. Introduced by Huw Wheldon. Tonight's programme includes: Poet Laureate A film study of Lord Tennyson Tennyson came into the nineteenth century as a romantic and a revolutionary. He left it as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate and the conscience of his age. For twenty years he was obsessed by his friendship for Arthur Hallam -alive and dead. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan
Season 7 episodes
1. Walking, Talking, Laughing Dance1963-09-29
2. Film Man's Sketch Book1963-10-13
3. The Prince of Denmark1963-10-27
4. A Sense of Order1963-11-10
5. Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy1963-11-24
6. Francisco Goya1963-12-08
7. Episode 71963-12-22
8. Death of My Mother1964-01-05
9. The Lost Michelangelo1964-01-19
10. Making the Bedmakers1964-02-02
11. 'An Aged Novelist': Waugh at 601964-02-16
12. Episode 121964-03-01
13. The Marks of Violence1964-03-15
14. Poet Laureate1964-03-29
15. Engraver in Montparnasse1964-04-12
16. The New Generation 19641964-04-26
17. The Power of Myth1964-05-10
18. Bela Bartok1964-05-24
19. Jean Tinguely sculptor1964-06-21
20. Alfred Hitchcock1964-07-05
21. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: York and Lancaster1964-08-30
22. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Meeting the Children1964-09-06
23. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Dog in the Night1964-09-13
24. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Life Flows and Overflows1964-09-20
25. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: The Prodigal1964-09-27
26. Hugo Dyson on Shakespeare: Abdication and Aggression1964-10-04
