English Literature

Course summary

English Literature is a thrilling and challenging A Level that will enable students to develop a range of invaluable skills. The course encourages students to respond with knowledge and understanding to a variety of literary texts, of different genres and from different centuries. Across the two-year course, students will have the opportunity to study a variety of poetry, prose and drama, including prose written before and after 1900 and a play by Shakespeare, to develop skills of analyzing previously unseen texts and, in the second year of the course, to write a comparative coursework essay based on two prose texts of the student’s own choice – one written before and one after 2000. You learn so many skills of analysis that it allows you to unlock a whole other layer within Literature. Also, the skills are invaluable for other subjects: essay writing, analysis, reading of lengthy texts