English Literature

Assessment

Component 1: Poetry 2 hours 30% Section A Poetry Pre-1900 (Open book; clean copy) • Chaucer – The Merchant’s Tale and Prologue • John Donne – selected poems • John Milton – Paradise Lost Book IX • John Keats – selected poems • Christina Rosetti – Selected Poems Section B Poetry Post-1900 (Open book; clean copy) • Thomas Hardy and T.S Eliot (selected poems) • D.H. Lawrence (selected poems) and Gillian Clarke – Making Beds for the Dead. • Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (selected poems) • Philip Larkin – The Whitsun Weddings / Carol Ann Duffy – Mean Time • Seamus Heaney – Field Work / Owen Sheers – Skirrid Hill Component 2: Drama 2 hours 30% Section A Shakespeare (Closed book) • King Lear/Anthony and Cleopatra/Hamlet/Henry IV part 1/ The Tempest Section B Drama (Closed book) • Christopher Marlowe – Dr Faustus / Lucy Prebble – Enron • John Webster – Duchess of Malfi / Tennessee Williams – Streetcar named Desire • Thomas Middleton – The Revenger’s Tragedy / Joe Orton – Loot • Oscar Wilde – Lady Windermere’s Fan / Harold Pinter – Betrayal • William Shakespeare – Measure for Measure/ David Hare – Murmuring Judges Component 3 Unseen texts 2 hours 20% Section A Unseen Prose • Analysis of one unseen prose passage 1880-1910 or 1918-1939 Section B Unseen Poetry • Analysis of unseen poem or poetry extract Component 4 Prose Study Non-exam assessed (coursework) 20% • Comparison of two novels of student’s own choice, one post-2000 and one pre-2000