A Poet’s Guide to Britain

Acclaimed poet and author Owen Sheers presents this enlightening BBC series in which he looks at six great works of poetry about the incomparable British landscape. The poems by William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Lynette Roberts, Sylvia Plath, Louis MacNeice and George Mackay Brown explore a sense of place and identity across Britain's most remarkable settings: Westminster Bridge, Dover Beach, a tiny Welsh village, a Yorkshire wooded valley, the Scottish Isles. These personal favorites open the doors to captivating stories about the lives of the poets themselves.