Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English Literature Poems Analysed

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Pearson Edexcel GCSE Poetry Anthology

Relationships

1. John Keats – La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819) (Romantic)
2. Joanna Baillie – A Child to his Sick Grandfather (1790) (Romantic)
3. Lord Byron – She Walks in Beauty (1814) (Romantic)
4. William Wordsworth – A Complaint (1807) (Romantic)
5. Thomas Hardy – Neutral Tones (1898) (Lit Heritage)
6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnet 43 (1850) (Lit Heritage)
7. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess (1842) (Lit Heritage)
8. Wendy Cope – 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He (2011) (Contemporary)
9. Carol Ann Duffy – Valentine (1993) (Contemporary)
10. Elizabeth Jennings – One Flesh (1966) (Contemporary)
11. John Cooper Clarke – I Wanna Be Yours (1983) (Contemporary)
12. Jen Hadfield – Love’s Dog (2008) (Contemporary)
13. Vernon Scannell – Nettles (1980) (Contemporary)
14. Simon Armitage – The Manhunt (2008) (Contemporary)
15. Ingrid de Kok – My Father Would Not Show Us (1988) (Contemporary)

Conflict

1. William Blake – A Poison Tree (1794) (Romantic)
2. Lord Byron – The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815) (Romantic)
3. William Wordsworth – Extract from The Prelude (1850) (Romantic)
4. Thomas Hardy – The Man He Killed (1902) (Lit Heritage)
5. Christina Rossetti – Cousin Kate (1860) (Lit Heritage)
6. Wilfred Owen – Exposure (1917) (Lit Heritage)
7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson – The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) (Lit Heritage)
8. John Agard – Half-caste (1996) (Contemporary)
9. Gillian Clarke – Catrin (1978) (Contemporary)
10. Carole Satyamurti – War Photographer (1987) (Contemporary)
11. Ciaran Carson – Belfast Confetti (1990) (Contemporary)
12. Mary Casey – The Class Game (1981) (Contemporary)
13. Jane Weir – Poppies (2005) (Contemporary)
14. Benjamin Zephaniah – No Problem (1996) (Contemporary)
15. Denise Levertov – What Were They Like? (1967) (Contemporary)

Time and Place

1. John Keats – To Autumn (1820) (Romantic)
2. William Wordsworth – Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (1802) (Romantic)
3. William Blake – London (1794) (Romantic)
4. Emily Dickinson – I started Early – Took my Dog (1862) (Lit Heritage)
5. Thomas Hardy – Where the Picnic was (1914) (Lit Heritage)
6. Edward Thomas – Adlestrop (1917) (Lit Heritage)
7. Robert Browning – Home Thoughts from Abroad (1845) (Lit Heritage)
8. U.A. Fanthorpe – First Flight (1988) (Contemporary)
9. Fleur Adcock – Stewart Island (1971) (Contemporary)
10. Moniza Alvi – Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan (2000) (Contemporary)
11. Grace Nichols – Hurricane Hits England (1996) (Contemporary)
12. Tatamkhulu Afrika – Nothing’s Changed (1994) (Contemporary)
13. Sophie Hannah – Postcard from a Travel Snob (1996) (Contemporary)
14. John Davidson – In Romney Marsh (1920) (Contemporary)
15. Elizabeth Jennings – Absence (1958) (Contemporary)

Belonging

1. William Wordsworth – To My Sister (Romantic)
2. John Clare – Sunday Dip (Romantic)
3. Emily Brontë – Mild the Mist Upon the Hill (Romantic)
4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon – Captain Cook (To My Brother) (Romantic) (still analyzing)
5. Robert Bridges – Clear and Gentle Stream (Lit Heritage)
6. Thomas Hood – I Remember, I Remember (Lit Heritage)
7. Grace Nichols – Island Man (Contemporary)
8. Amy Blakemore – Peckham Rye Lane (Contemporary)
9. Benjamin Zephaniah – We Refugees (Contemporary)
10. Zaffar Kunial – Us (Contemporary)
11. Imtiaz Dharker – In Wales, wanting to be Italian (Contemporary)
12. Kayo Chingonyi – Kumukanda (Contemporary)
13. Raymond Antrobus – Jamaican British (Contemporary)
14. Choman Hardi – My Mother’s Kitchen (Contemporary)
15. Carol Rumens – The Émigrée (Contemporary)