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‘The Question’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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‘The Question’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Shelley → ‘The Question’ Annotations for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file.
Poetry (pre-1900): Christina Rossetti
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Poetry (pre-1900): Christina Rossetti

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English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 1: Drama and poetry (pre-1900) → Christina Rossetti All fifteen of the Rossetti poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-six-page PDF.
Metaphysical Poet: John Donne
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Metaphysical Poet: John Donne

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English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Metaphysical poetry → John Donne All twenty-nine of the Donne poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-four-page PDF.
Loyalty in ‘Hamlet’
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Loyalty in ‘Hamlet’

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English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
‘Paradise Lost’, Book IX
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‘Paradise Lost’, Book IX

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English literature → Milton → Paradise Lost Key passages in an eighteen-page PDF. The three scenes of Book IX – Adam and Eve’s separation in the garden, Satan’s temptation of Eve, and Eve’s temptation of Adam – bookended by Satan’s first speech, and Adam and Eve’s final speeches of ‘mutual accusation’.
Hamlet’s seven soliloquies
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Hamlet’s seven soliloquies

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English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet Hamlet’s seven soliloquies compiled in a six-page PDF, with some brief analysis at the beginning about how they can be understood in terms of memory, understanding, and will.
Edexcel: The Romantics
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Edexcel: The Romantics

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English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics Four pages on the poems, arranged chronologically by composition date. Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. Blake, ‘Holy Thursday’ (Songs of Innocence) (c. 1784) Blake, ‘London’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘The Sick Rose’, and ‘Holy Thursday’ (Songs of Experience) (c. 1791–92) Wordsworth, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ (1798) Wordsworth, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ (1798) Wordsworth, ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ (1802–04) Byron, ‘Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull’ (1808) Shelley, ‘The cold earth slept below’ (?1816) Byron, ‘So We’ll Go no more A Roving’ (1817) Keats, ‘Sonnet on the Sea’ (1817) Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples’ (1818) Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, and ‘Ode on Melancholy’ (1819) Shelley, ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (1819) Shelley, ‘The Question’ (1820) Byron, ‘On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’ (1824)
Romantics bundle
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Romantics bundle

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English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Edexcel: The Romantics ‘The Question’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Romantics: Byron ‘Sonnet on the Sea’ by John Keats Subgenres of Romanticism