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)
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
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Subgenres of Romanticism
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English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Byron
Byron is primarily remembered for epic poems such as Don Juan, and closet dramas such as Manfred and Cain, and there aren’t a great deal of resources available on the three short poems included in Edexcel’s selection from English Romantic Verse. The following are the entries about the poems from The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron by Martin Garrett.
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English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → American literature (1880–1940) →
The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms
The Great Gatsby and Passing
English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → American literature (1880–1940) → The Great Gatsby and Passing
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English literature → Shakespeare → Twelfth Night
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English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → The Gothic → Frankenstein and The Bloody Chamber
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English literature → A-level → Eduqas → Paper 1: Poetry → Post-1900 poetry → Hardy and Eliot
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English literature → A-level → Revision notes
For each text that you are studying, make notes under some or all of the following headings. (The examples here are from A Streetcar Named Desire [1947] by Tennessee Williams.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Keats → ‘Sonnet on the Sea’
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English literature → Carol Ann Duffy → ‘Beautiful’
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English literature → Caryl Churchill → Top Girls
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English literature → A-level → Eduqas → Paper 2: Drama → Pre-1900 and post-1900 drama → The Revenger’s Tragedy and Loot
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English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → The Gothic → Outer Dark
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English literature → Oscar Wilde → The Picture of Dorian Gray
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English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet
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