For those that are studying WJEC GCE AS English Language and Literature course, here is a list of all poems from their syllabus analyzed. These are the poems that apply to exams for Unit 1 Section A. If you are struggling to understand any of the terms used in our analysis, explore our literary term glossary.
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WJEC GCE AS English Language and Literature Anthology
Poetry Pre-1914
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Chrisopher Marlowe
- Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
- There Is A Garden In Her Face by Thomas Campion
- The Collar by George Herbert
- Sonnet XIX: On His Blindness by John Milton
- To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
- A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift
- The Schoolboy by William Blake
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (September 3, 1802) by William Wordsworth
- Kubla Khan (Extract) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
- Ozymandias by Percy Byshee Shelley
- To Autumn by John Keats
- Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Spellbound by Emily Brontë
- Song (When I am dead, my dearest) by Christina Rossetti
- The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
- God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Leisure by William Henry Davies
