The Best Poets & Poetry Documentaries

Books, Theatre & Photography - 29 free documentaries about poets & poetry.

Start with Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (25 min, Biographics), then The Metaphysicals: The Punk Poets Of 17th-Century Literature (30 min, Absolute History). All 29 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on poets & poetry is The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson.

• Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (25 min, Biographics)
• The Metaphysicals: The Punk Poets Of 17th-Century Literature | Literary Classic (30 min, Absolute History)
• The World's First Sex Symbol | The Scandalous Adventures Of Lord Byron (47 min, Absolute History)
• How 5 English Poets Became Revered Across Europe | Literary Classics: The Romantics (51 min, Perspective)
• How Lord Byron's Saucy Adventures Made Him An 18th Century Celebrity (48 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The Real Reason Lord Byron Became So Famous | The Adventures Of Lord Byron (48 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Journey to the Mystical City of Rumi (35 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• The Victorian Poets: Verse That Rivalled The Romantics | Literary Classics (49 min, Perspective)
• Who Were The Metaphysical Poets And What Made Them So Special? | Literary Classics (28 min, Perspective)
• Rumi - The Most Famous Sufi Poet in the World (79 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• Lal Ded - The Mystic Poetess of Kashmir (20 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• Who Were The Great English Poets Of The Augustan Age? | Literary Classics (50 min, Perspective)
• How Lord Byron Became A Greek Hero | The Scandalous Adventures Of Lord Byron (48 min, Absolute History)
• Islamic Non-Dualism: The Sufi Poetry of al-Shushtari (44 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• Walt Whitman: America's Poet (22 min, Biographics)
• Ibn al-Farid - The Sufi Poet of Love & Oneness (37 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• Romanticism: Introduction, Poetry & Philosophy (20 min, Then & Now)
• Wallada: The Rebel Princess-Poet of Al-Andalus (20 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• History-Makers: Hesiod – the first (real) poet in Greece (15 min, Overly Sarcastic Productions)
• How I Wrote "The Veneziad" – the making of an Epic Poem (17 min, Overly Sarcastic Productions)
• The Greatest War Poems In History | Literary Classics (60 min, Perspective)
• POEMS [50K SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL!] (30 min, Overly Sarcastic Productions)
• Al-Shushtari: Sufi Poet of the People (25 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara (17 min, The Art Assignment)
• Romantics in the Lake District: The Roots of Romanticism (53 min, Then & Now)
• Yunus Emre - The Sufi Poet Who Shaped the Turkish Language (17 min, Let's Talk Religion)
• Alden Nowlan An Introduction (29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• Wood Mountain Poems (28 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• Autobiographical (10 min, National Film Board of Canada)

Top-Rated Books About Poets & Poetry

1. The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Margaret Ferguson - View on Amazon
2. How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton - View on Amazon
3. Red Comet by Heather L. Clark - View on Amazon
4. John Keats by Nicholas Roe - View on Amazon