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Literature in English (0475)
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Poetry: Songs of Ourselves Volume 1 (2027 & 2028)
William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’
Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’
Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’
William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’
Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’
Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’
Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’
Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’
Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’
Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’
Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’
Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’
Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’
Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’
Poetry: Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 3 (2027)
Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’
Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’
Arun Kolatkar, ‘The Bus’
Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’
Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’
Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’
Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’
W H Auden, ‘The Capital’
Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’
Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’
Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’
Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’
Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’
Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’
George Szirtes, ‘Song’
Poetry: Songs of Ourselves Volume 3 (2028)
John Clare, ‘Insects’
Ellis Ayitey Komey, ‘Oblivion’
Alice Oswald, ‘Fox’
Ruth Dallas, ‘Deep in the Hills’
Moniza Alvi, ‘My Aunts Don’t Want to Move’
Jacob Polley, ‘Ruin’
William Wordsworth, from ‘The Prelude’
Helen Dunmore, ‘Bouncing Boy’
Yvonne Gray, ‘Lightness’
William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 106’
Lady Mary Chudleigh, ‘To the Ladies’
Romalyn Ante, ‘Ode to a Pot Noodle’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from ‘My Heart and I’
Les Murray, ‘The Widower in the Country’
Ifi Amadiume, ‘Mistress of My Own Being’
Poetry: Kumukanda, by Kayo Chingonyi (2027 & 2028)
The Colour of James Brown’s Scream
Fisherman’s Song
Broomhall
Some Bright Elegance
The N Word (I.)
Curfew
Waves
Kumukanda
A Proud Blemish
Grief
Andrews Corner
Kung’anda
’Round Midnight
Baltic Mill
This poem contains gull song
Prose: Set novels and collections (2027 & 2028)
Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Kiran Desai Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Susan Hill I’m the King of the Castle
Prose: Set novels (2027)
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Anita Desai Fire on the Mountain
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Prose: Set novels (2028)
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo When We Were Birds
Colm Tóibín Brooklyn
Prose: Stories of Ourselves Volume 2 (2027)
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’
no. 37 J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’
no. 40 Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’
Prose: Stories of Ourselves Volume 3 (2028)
Thomas Hardy, ‘Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver’
Kate Chopin, ‘A Pair of Silk Stockings’
Herman Bosman, ‘Excursion’
Ray Bradbury, ‘The Flying Machine’
Sam Selvon, ‘The Cricket Match’
David Lodge, ‘The Man Who Wouldn’t Get Up’
Anita Desai, ‘Sale’
Ila Mehta, ‘Smoke’
Patricia Grace, ‘Fishing’
Silmy Abdullah, ‘Reflection’
Drama (2027 & 2028)
Pearl Cleage Blues for an Alabama Sky
Chinonyerem Odimba Princess & the Hustler
Drama (2027)
Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
Drama (2028)
J B Priestley An Inspector Calls
William Shakespeare The Tempest
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Skills: Unseen (Paper 2 Section B from 2028 / Paper 4 in 2027)
Unseen poem: critical commentary
Unseen prose extract: critical commentary
Skills: Essay & passage-based response
Passage-based question: analysing a printed extract
Essay question: building a whole-text argument
Using quotation and textual reference (AO1)
Reading beyond surface meaning: ideas, attitudes and context (AO2)
Analysing form, language and structure (AO3)
Developing an informed personal response (AO4)
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