For those that are studying the CCEA GCE A level English Literature (5110), there is a list of poems for which the student must study in preparation of answering a question about any one of them, taken from the syllabus. This includes a list of poems written after 1800 from Hopkins: Selected Poems, Duffy: A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse, Dickinson: Selected Poems, Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White, Heaney: Opened Ground, Montague: John Montague: New Selected Poems, Thomas (E): Selected Poems, Frost: Selected Poems, Yeats: Selected Poems, Kavanagh: Selected Poems, as well as poems written between 1300-1800 from Goldsmith: Selected Poems, and Donne: Selected Poems.
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CCEA GCE English Literature (5110)
Prescribed Poems for Unit 2 Section A – The Study of Poetry Written after 1800
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems
- God’s Grandeur
- The Starlight Night
- Spring
- Pied Beauty
- The Windhover
- Binsey Poplars
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- No Worst, There is None
- Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
- I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Carrion Comfort
- My Own Heart Let Me Have Pity On
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Emily Dickinson: A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
- It was not Death, for I stood up
- One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted
- Victory comes late
- A narrow Fellow in the Grass
- The Cricket sang
- An awful Tempest mashed the air
- Fairer through Fading – as the Day
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes
- I saw no Way – The Heavens were stitched
- I dreaded that first Robin, so
- How the old Mountains drip with Sunset
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Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems
- Standing Female Nude
- Recognition
- Dolphins
- Warming her Pearls
- Meantime
- Originally
- In Mrs Tilscher’s Class
- Litany
- Good Teachers
- Nostalgia
- The Virgin Punishes the Infant
- The Way My Mother Speaks
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Liz Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White
- Lanarkshire Girls
- Redneck
- Aquarium
- The Beekeeper
- Epithalamium
- The Miner
- Sorting Through
- 1953
- View of Scotland
- The Journeyman Paul Cezanne
- The Metal Raw
- After the War
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Seamus Heaney: Opened Ground
- The Barn
- The Settle Bed
- A Drink of Water
- The Skunk
- The Forge
- Bogland
- The Strand at Lough Beg
- The Other Side
- Man and Boy
- The Wife’s Tale
- Exposure
- The Ministry of Fear
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John Montague: New Selected Poems
- The Water Carrier
- Like Dolmens Round My Childhood
- The Wild Dog Rose – Section 1
- All Legendary Obstacles
- Forge
- A Lost Tradition
- (from) Hymn to the new Omagh Road
- The Errigal Road
- The Silver Flask
- The Locket
- Cassandra’s Answer
- Time in Armagh
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Edward Thomas: Selected Poems
- The New Year
- Adlestrop
- Man and Dog
- Beauty
- The Gypsy
- May the twenty-third
- The Owl
- The Glory
- The Chalk Pit
- Haymaking
- Aspens
- As the Team’s Head-Brass
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Robert Frost: Selected Poems
- Tuft of Flowers
- Mending Wall
- After Apple Picking
- The Woodpile
- An Old Man’s Winter Night
- The Oven-bird
- Birches
- Out, Out
- Stopping by Woods
- For Once, then Something
- Two Look at Two
- Tree at my Window
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William Butler Yeats: Selected Poems
- No Second Troy
- September 1913
- To a Shade
- A Coat
- The Wild Swans at Coole
- In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
- Easter 1916
- The Second Coming
- Leda and the Swan
- Among Schoolchildren
- Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited
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Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Poems
- Inniskeen Road: July Evening
- Shancoduff
- Stony Grey Soil
- A Christmas Childhood
- Innocence
- Epic
- On Looking into E.V. Rieu’s Homer
- In Memory of My Mother
- The Hospital
- Canal Bank Walk
- Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin
- Irish Poets Open Your Eyes
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Prescribed Poems for Unit 3 (A2 1) Section A – The Study of Poetry from 1300-1800
Oliver Goldsmith: Selected Poems
- The Deserted Village
John Donne: Selected Poems
- The Flea
- The Good-Morrow
- The Sun Rising
- The Canonization
- The Anniversary
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- The Ecstasy
- The Relic
- Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going To Bed
- Love’s Deity
- Good Friday,1613. Riding Westward
- Holy Sonnet VII: At the round earth’s imagin’d corners
- Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
- Holy Sonnet X: Death, be not proud
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