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: Lord Byron
Romantic Poet: John Keats
‘Sonnet on the Sea’ by John Keats
Subgenres of Romanticism
English literature → Oscar Wilde → The Picture of Dorian Gray
Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → AQA (A) → Paper 1: Love through the ages → Comparing texts → ‘Love poetry through the ages, pre-1900’
Anthology poems grouped chronologically, with explanations, into Metaphysical, Romantic, Victorian, etc.
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF files. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → The Gothic →
Dracula and Beloved
Dracula and The Bloody Chamber
Frankenstein and The Bloody Chamber
The intellectual and historical context of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Outer Dark
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Beloved
What ‘Gothic’ means