English Literature

Topics

Prose Fiction

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Heroes

Short Stories

Flight
Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit
The End of Something
Your Shoes

Drama

The Crucible
A View from the Bridge
An Inspector Calls
Blood Brothers
Hamlet
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice

Pre-1914 Poetry

William Blake: The Little Boy Lost / The Little Boy Found
William Blake: London
John Clare: Sonnet
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Walt Whitman: Patrolling Barnegat
William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
W B Yeats: Song of the Old Mother

Post-1914 Poetry

Simon Armitage
Gillian Clarke
Carol Ann Duffy
Seamus Heaney
Wilfred Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est

AQA Poetry: Character and voice

Poetry: Character and voice
Simon Armitage - Clown Punk; John Agard - Checking Out Me History; Andrew Forster - Horse Whisperer; Carol Ann Duffy - Medusa; Daljit Nagra - Singh Song!; Jackie Kay - Brendon Gallacher; Simon Armitage - Give; Dorothy Molloy - Les Grands Seigneurs; Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias; Robert Browning - My Last Duchess; Stevie Smith - River God; Dylan Thomas - The Hunchback in the Park; Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid; UA Fanthorpe - Casehistory Alison (head injury); John Betjeman - On a Portrait of a Deaf Man

AQA Poetry: Place

Poetry: Place
Seamus Heaney - The Blackbird of Glanmore, Simon Armitage - A Vision, Margaret Atwood - The Moment, Grace Nichols - Price We Pay for the Sun, Gillian Clarke - Neighbours, Kathleen Jamie - Crossing the Loch, Jean Sprackland - Hard Water; William Wordsworth - The Prelude (extract); W B Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole; Emily Brontë - Spellbound; Norman MacCaig - Below the Green Corrie; D H Lawrence - Storm in the Black Forest; Ted Hughes - Wind

AQA Poetry: Relationships

Poetry: Relationships
Simon Armitage - The Manhunt; Carol Ann Duffy - Hour; James Fenton - In Paris with You; Carol Ann Duffy - Quickdraw; Mimi Khalvati - Ghazal; Andrew Forster - Brothers; Grace Nichols - Praise Song for My Mother; Simon Armitage - Harmonium; William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116; Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43; Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress; Charlotte Mew - The Farmer's Bride; Christina Georgina Rossetti - Sister Maude; Vernon Scannell - Nettles; Phillip Larkin - Born Yesterday

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