Reference: Poetry, Prose, and Music

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Season One

  • “Once Upon a Time in the City of New York”
    Episode 1.1 (#1)
    • Prose: Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”.
  • “Terrible Savior”
    Episode 1.2 (#2)
    • Unknown.
  • “Siege”
    Episode 1.3 (#3)
    • Poetry: William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29″.
    • Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven, “Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13 Movement #2 – Pathetique”.
  • “No Way Down”
    Episode 1.4 (#4)
    • Prose: Mme Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast. The name of the building that Vincent must locate to reach safety is referred to as the Beaumont.
  • “Masques”
    Episode 1.5 (#5)
    • Poetry: Thomas Moore, “She is Far from the Land.”
  • “The Beast Within”
    Episode 1.6 (#6)
    • Unknown.
  • “Nor Iron Bars a Cage”
    Episode 1.7 (#7)
    • Prose: Richard Lovelace, “To Althea, from Prison.”
    • Poetry: William Wordsworth, “Surprised by Joy.”
  • “Song of Orpheus”
    Episode 1.8 (#8)
    • Poetry: Robert Henryson, “Orpheus and Eurydice.”
  • “Dark Spirit”
    Episode 1.9 (#9)
    • Unknown.
  • “A Children’’s Story”
    Episode 1.10 (#10)
    • Unknown.
  • “An Impossible Silence”
    Episode 1.11 (#11)
    • Unknown.
  • “Shades of Grey”
    Episode 1.12 (#12)
    • Poetry: William Blake, “Angries of Innocence.”
  • “China Moon”
    Episode 1.13 (#13)
    • Unknown.
  • “The Alchemist”
    Episode 1.14 (#14)
    • Prose: Wiliam Shakespeare, “Henry IV.”
  • “Temptation”
    Episode 1.15 (#15)
    • Prose: Rainer Marie Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet, Letter 8-excerpt.
    • Poetry: William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116.”
  • “Promises of Someday”
    Episode 1.16 (#16)
    • Unknown.
  • “Down to a Sunless Sea”
    Episode 1.17 (#17)
    • Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”.
  • “Fever”
    Episode 1.18 (#18)
    • Unknown.
  • “Everything is Everything”
    Episode 1.19 (#19)
    • Prose: Rudyard Kipling, “The Elephant’s Child.”
  • “To Reign in Hell”
    Episode 1.20 (#20)
    • Prose: John Milton, “Paradise Lost.”
  • “Ozymandias”
    Episode 1.21 (#21)
    • Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandius”.
  • “A Happy Life”
    Episode 1.22 (#22)
    • Music: Edvard Grieg, “Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16.”

Season Two

  • “Chamber Music”
    Episode 2.1 (#23)
    • Music: Franz Schubert, “Symphony No. 8 in B minor”.
    • Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, “Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor ”Quasi una fantasia””.
    • Music: Schubert, “Impromptu in G-Flat op. 90 No. 3.”
    • Poetry: Lord Byron, George Gordon, “She Walks in Beauty.”
  • “Remember Love”
    Episode 2.2 (#24)
    • Unknown.
  • “Ashes, Ashes”
    Episode 2.3 (#25)
    • Music: “Catherine’s Lullaby”:
      Sleep my pretty one. Rest now my pretty one.
      Close your eyes the day is nearly done.
      Rest your heart, tomorrow will surely come.
      Sleep my pretty one. Rest now my pretty one.
      Close your eyes the day is nearly done…

    • Poetry: Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Sweet and Low.”
  • “Dead of Winter”
    Episode 2.4 (#26)
    • Poetry: Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach.”
    • Poetry: T. S. Eliot, “Journey of the Magi.”
    • Prose: William Shakespeare, “Hamlet.”
  • “God Bless the Child”
    Episode 2.5 (#27)
    • Poetry: Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach.”
  • “Sticks and Stones”
    Episode 2.6 (#28)
    • Unknown.
  • “A Fair and Perfect Knight”
    Episode 2.7 (#29)
    • Prose: William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene I.
    • Poetry: William Blake, “Piping Down The Valley’’s Wild.”
    • Poetry: William Blake, “The Songs of Innocence.”
    • Poetry: William Blake, “To the Evening Star.”
  • “Labyrinths”
    Episode 2.8 (#30)
    • Unknown.
  • “Brothers”
    Episode 2.9 (#31)
    • Prose: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
    • Poetry: Lewis Carroll, “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”
  • “A Gentle Rain”
    Episode 2.10 (#32)
    • Poetry: William Wordsworth, “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.”
  • “The Outsiders”
    Episode 2.11 (#33)
    • Unknown.
  • “Orphans”
    Episode 2.12 (#34)
    • Prose: Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit.
  • “Arabesque”
    Episode 2.13 (#35)
    • Poetry: Rainer Maria Rilke, “You Darkness.”
  • “When the Blue Bird Sings”
    Episode 2.14 (#36)
    • Prose: Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw.”
    • Prose: Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Idylls of the King.”
    • Poetry: Lord Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shallott.”
    • Poetry: Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself.”
    • Poetry: Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying.”
  • “The Watcher”
    Episode 2.15 (#37)
    • Unknown.
  • “A Distant Shore”
    Episode 2.16 (#38)
    • Poem: e. e. cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Traveled.”
    • Music: Lyrics by Melanie Safka, sung by Lisa Angelle, “The First Time I Loved Forever.”
  • “Trial”
    Episode 2.17 (#39)
    • Unknown.
  • “A Kingdom by the Sea”
    Episode 2.18 (#40)
    • Poetry: Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress.”
    • Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee.”
  • “The Hollow Men”
    Episode 2.19 (#41)
    • Poetry: T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men.”
  • “What Rough Beast”
    Episode 2.20 (#42)
    • Poetry: Dylan Thomas, “And Death Shall Have No Dominion.”
    • Music: Beethoven, “Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 – Movement #2.”
    • Poetry: William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming.”
  • “Ceremony of Innocence”
    Episode 2.21 (#43)
    • Poetry: Dylan Thomas, “And Death Shall Have No Dominion.”
    • Poetry: William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming.”
  • “The Rest is Silence…”
    Episode 2.22 (#44)
    • Music: Vivaldi, “The Four Seasons – Op. 8, Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor.”
    • Music: La Stravaganza, “Op. 4, Violin Concerto No. 2 in E minor.”
    • Prose: Charlotte Brontё, “Jane Eyre.”

Season Three

  • “Though Lovers be Lost”
    Episode 3.1 (#45)
    • Music: Lyrics by Melanie Safka, sung by Lisa Angelle, “The First Time I Loved Forever”, played during the “lava and roses” sequence.
    • Poetry: Dylan Thomas, “And Death Shall Have No Dominion.”
    • Music: Mozart, “Clarinet Concert in A major.”
  • “Walk Slowly”
    Episode 3.2 (#46)
    • Chopin, “Ballade No. 1, op. 23.”
  • “Nevermore”
    Episode 3.3 (#47)
    • Unknown.
  • “Snow”
    Episode 3.4 (#48)
    • Unknown.
  • “Beggar’s Comet”
    Episode 3.5 (#49)
    • Prose: William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar.”
  • “A Time to Heal”
    Episode 3.6 (#50)
    • Unknown.
  • “In the Forests of the Night”
    Episode 3.7 (#51)
    • Poetry: William Blake, “The Tiger.”
  • “The Chimes at Midnight”
    Episode 3.8 (#52)
    • Unknown.
  • “Invictus”
    Episode 3.9 (#53)
    • Poetry: William Earnest Henley, “Invictus.”
  • “Reckoning”
    Episode 3.10 (#54)
    • Unknown.
  • “Legacies”
    Episode 3.11 (#55)
    • Unknown.

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