GCSE
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
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Past and present: poetry anthology
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, GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY
Contents
Cluster 1: Love and relationships
Lord Byron When We Two Parted 6
Percy Bysshe Shelley Love’s Philosophy 7
Robert Browning Porphyria’s Lover 8
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ 10
Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones 11
Maura Dooley Letters from Yorkshire 12
Charlotte Mew The Farmer’s Bride 13
Cecil Day-Lewis Walking Away 15
Charles Causley Eden Rock 16
Seamus Heaney Follower 17
Simon Armitage Mother, any distance 18
Before You Were Mine 19
Owen Sheers Winter Swans 20
Daljit Nagra Singh Song! 21
Andrew Waterhouse Climbing My Grandfather 23
aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 3
, Cluster 2: Power and conflict
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias 26
William Blake London 27
William Wordsworth Extract from, The Prelude 28
Robert Browning My Last Duchess 30
Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade 32
Wilfred Owen Exposure 33
Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island 35
Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge 36
Simon Armitage Remains 37
Jane Weir Poppies 39
War Photographer 41
Imtiaz Dharker Tissue 42
Carol Rumens The Emigrée 43
John Agard Checking Out Me History 44
Beatrice Garland Kamikaze 46
4 Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
(8702)
Past and present: poetry anthology
For exams from 2017
Version 1.0 June 2015
,AQA GCSE English Literature
Past and present: poetry anthology
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying
or storing on any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use
of this publication) without the written permission of the publisher, except in accordance with the provisions of
the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of the licence issued by the Copyright Licensing
Agency.
Notice to teachers:
It is illegal to reproduce any part of this work in material form (including photocopying and electronic storage)
except under the following circumstances:
i) where you are abiding by a licence granted to your school or institution by the Copyright Licensing Agency;
ii) where no such licence exists, or where you wish to exceed the terms of a licence, and you have gained the
written permission of The Publishers Licensing Society;
iii) where you are allowed to reproduce without permission under the provisions of Chapter 3 of the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Photo permissions
5 kieferpix / Getty Images, 6 Georgios Kollidas/Fotolia, 8 Georgios Kollidas/Fotolia, 9 Georgios Kollidas/Fotolia,
11 Georgios Kollidas/Fotolia, 12 Photos.com/Thinkstock, 13 Stuart Clarke/REX, 16 culture-images/Lebrecht,
16,© Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy, 17 Topfoto.co.uk, 18 Schiffer-Fuchs/ullstein bild/Getty Images, 19 ,© GARY
DOAK/Alamy, 20 © GARY DOAK/Alamy, 21 ,© Kathy deWitt/Alamy, 22 ,© Derek Adams/Alamy, 25 Chris Weeks
/ Contributor / Gettyimages, 26 Georgios Kollidas/Fotolia, 27 ,© The Print Collector/Alamy, 29 ,Georgios Kollidas/
Fotolia, 30 ,Georgios Kollidas/Fotolia, 32 Photos.com/Thinkstock, 34 ,© The Art Archive/Alamy, 36 Schiffer-
Fuchs/ullstein bild/Getty Images, 37 ,©2004 Credit:TopFoto/UPP, 38 © GARY DOAK/Alamy, 40 Courtesy
Templar Poetry, 42 © GARY DOAK/Alamy, 43 wareham.nl (Algemene Nieuws) / Alamy, 45 British Library Board
/ TopFoto, 46 NILS JORGENSEN/REX, 48 Charles Medawar
Acknowledgement of copyright-holders and publishers
Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied for. In some cases, efforts to contact copyright-
holders have been unsuccessful and AQA will be happy to rectify any omissions of acknowledgements in future
Copyright © 2015 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.
AQA Education (AQA) is a registered charity (number 1073334) and a company limited by guarantee registered
in England and Wales (number 3644723). Our registered address is AQA, Devas Street, Manchester M15 6EX.
With thanks to Cambridge University Press
for their support with this project.
, GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY
Contents
Cluster 1: Love and relationships
Lord Byron When We Two Parted 6
Percy Bysshe Shelley Love’s Philosophy 7
Robert Browning Porphyria’s Lover 8
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ 10
Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones 11
Maura Dooley Letters from Yorkshire 12
Charlotte Mew The Farmer’s Bride 13
Cecil Day-Lewis Walking Away 15
Charles Causley Eden Rock 16
Seamus Heaney Follower 17
Simon Armitage Mother, any distance 18
Before You Were Mine 19
Owen Sheers Winter Swans 20
Daljit Nagra Singh Song! 21
Andrew Waterhouse Climbing My Grandfather 23
aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 3
, Cluster 2: Power and conflict
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias 26
William Blake London 27
William Wordsworth Extract from, The Prelude 28
Robert Browning My Last Duchess 30
Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade 32
Wilfred Owen Exposure 33
Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island 35
Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge 36
Simon Armitage Remains 37
Jane Weir Poppies 39
War Photographer 41
Imtiaz Dharker Tissue 42
Carol Rumens The Emigrée 43
John Agard Checking Out Me History 44
Beatrice Garland Kamikaze 46
4 Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library
