Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

On this episode of Camera Three, actress Claire Bloom reads poetry. Excerpts include selections from T.S. Eliot, Lord Byron, A.E. Housman, Sir Philip Sydney, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and medieval carols.

This program provides a detailed analysis of "My Mistres eyes are nothing like the Sunne" by William Shakespeare, "On the Farm" by R. S. Thomas, "This is a Hymn" by Lorna Goodison, and "Lines on the Death of Dr Swift" by Jonathan Swift. Readings, along with critical and historical commentary, are given by contemporary poets Patience Agbabi, Michael Donaghy, W. N. Herbert, John Kinsella, Clare Pollard, and Owen Sheers.

Follows a circle of family and friends over the course of a day from morning till night, showing the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.

On this episode of Camera Three, James Dickey, Muriel Rukeyser, and Peter Viereck discuss the popularity of poetry readings on college campuses, compare modern Russian and American audiences, and Cause poetry. The poets read The Night Pool, To be Sung, and Part 12 of The Outer Banks.

William Shatner stars in this celebration of poetic portraits featuring excerpts from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Poems include... "Gone," by Carl Sandburg "Samuel Sewall," by Anthony Hecht "Miss Helen Lang," by Robert Hillyer "Volunteer Fireman," by Phyllis McGinley "The Librarian," by Richard Armour "The Mannequins," by Louis Simpson "True Love," by Judith Viorst "Tomorrow Is My Birthday," by Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River...

On this episode of Camera Three, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee perform poetry about the African-American experience. Excerpts include verses from Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sterling Brown, Frank Horne, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Margaret Walker.

On this episode of Camera Three, Michele Collision and Elizabeth Swados sing the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Selections include Elm, You're, The Applicant, Ariel, Daddy, Lady Lazarus and Getting There.

On this episode of Camera Three, Dorothy Stickney performs excerpts from her play, A Lovely Light, which is a dramatization of the poems and letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

A fascinating chapter in the history of the English language is illustrated by the 10th-century Norse village excavated in present-day York. A careful, scholarly reconstruction of the site demonstrates life in England around the time of the Domesday Book-roughly equidistant between Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales. The program explains the Norse element in the English language.