LITERATURE IN ENGLISH ADVANCED SUBSIDIARY/ADVANCED LEVEL (SYLLABUS 9695) SET TEXTS FOR EXAMINATION IN 2006

Paper 3

Poetry and Prose

Section A Poetry

*John Keats Selected Poems (Everyman)(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

Jack Hydes, ed. Touched with Fire: selected poems from Section A AND Section B

(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

Stevie Smith Selected Poems (Penguin ed. J. MacGibbon)(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

Section B Prose

Ngugi A Grain of Wheat

*George Eliot The Mill on the Floss

*Katherine Mansfield Short Stories (Everyman)

(see full list of stories to be studied in Appendix A)

* asterisked texts will also be examined in 2007

Paper 4

Drama

Caryl Churchill Serious Money

*William Shakespeare The Comedy of Errors

*William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

*Charlotte Keatley My Mother Said I Never Should

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

*Richard Sheridan The Rivals

* asterisked texts will also be examined in 2007

Paper 5

Shakespeare and Other pre-20th Century Texts

Section A Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

*William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Section B Other pre-twentieth century texts

Jane Austen Emma

*Geoffrey Chaucer The Knight’s Tale

*Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

Christina Rossetti Selected Poems (Everyman)(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

*Andrew Marvell selected poems from The Metaphysical Poets (ed. Helen Gardner, Penguin)

(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

*Charles Dickens David Copperfield

*Ben Jonson The Alchemist

*Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

* asterisked texts will also be examined in 2007

Paper 6

20th Century Writing

*Jean Rhys The Wide Sargasso Sea

*R. K. Naryan The Guide

*Les Murray from Selected Poems (Carcanet)(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

Harold Pinter The Caretaker

*Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

*Samuel Beckett Endgame

*Derek Walcott Selected Poetry (Heinemann)(see full list of poems to be studied in Appendix A)

*Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

* asterisked texts will also be examined in 2007

APPENDIX A

POEMS TO BE STUDIED IN POETRY SET TEXTS

Keats: Everyman Selected Poetry (Paper 3/Paper 9)

Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt Left PrisonOn First Looking into Chapman’s Homer‘Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ringAddressed to the Same [‘Great Spirits’]from Sleep and PoetryTo Leigh Hunt, Esq.On Seeing the Elgin MarblesOn the Seafrom Endymion: A Poetic RomanceOn Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’On Visiting the Tomb of BurnsHyperion. A FragmentThe Eve of St AgnesLa belle dame sans merciOde to PsycheOde to a NightingaleOde on a Grecian UrnOde on MelancholyOde on IndolenceLamiaTo Autumn‘Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art’

Katherine Mansfield: Short Stories (Paper 3/Paper 9)

Frau Brechenmacher Attends a WeddingMillieThe Woman at the StoreAn Indiscreet JourneyThe Little GovernessPreludeBlissA Married Man’s StoryHer First BallAt the Bay The Garden PartyThe Voyage

Jack Hydes, ed.: Touched with Fire from Sections A and B (Paper 3/Paper 9)

Section A:

Edward Thomas: Tall Nettles

Ted Hughes: Thistles;

Rupert Brooke: The Great Lover

Norman Nicholson: Rising Five

Stephen Spender: The Truly Great

Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

P B Shelley: Ozymandias

Emily Brontë: Cold in the Earth

Dick Davis: The City of Orange Trees

Anonymous: Corpus Christi Carol

Gabriel Okara: Piano and Drums

W B Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

Thomas Hardy: Afterwards

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Solitude

Seamus Heaney: The Early Purges

Robert Frost: The Telephone

Wole Soyinka: Telephone Conversation

W H Auden: Look, stranger, at this island now

And Section B:

Robert Frost: Two Look at Two

D H Lawrence: Mountain Lion

W H Auden: Musée de Beaux Arts

Roger McGough: The Fallen Birdman

John Gurney: The Porpoises

Michael Schmidt: The Pond

Coventry Patmore: The Toys

Mervyn Morris: Little Boy Crying

Charles Causley: Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Mariana

Thomas Hardy: The Voice

William Wordsworth: Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey

Philip Larkin: Church Going

Abioseh Nicol: Easter Morning – The African Intellectual

John Betjeman: In Westminster Abbey

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116

Stevie Smith: Selected Poems (Paper 3/Paper 9)

EgocentricAlfred the GreatTo the Tune of the Coventry CarolAlone in the WoodsGod and the DevilThe River DebenLord MopePrivate Means is DeadThe Fugitive’s RideSuburbTender Only to OneThe Abominable LakeOne of ManyThe BoatInfelice

Silence and TearsMother, among the DustbinsProud Death with Swelling PortThe Lads of the VillageThe PhotographOut of TimeLittle Boy SickMurderGirls!Study to Deserve DeathLove Me!Lady ‘Rogue’ SingletonA Man I amAprès la Politique, la Haine des BourbonsThe Pleasures of FriendshipThe RecluseChristmasThe CastleTo Dean Inge Lecturing on OrigenBehind the KnightHarold’s LeapTouch and GoMan is a SpiritThought is SuperiorThe River GodThe AmbassadorDo Take Muriel OutI rode with my darling… God and ManFrom the CopticDo Not!Not Waving but DrowningThe New AgeA Dream of ComparisonAnger’s Freeing PowerAway, MelancholyWill Man Ever Face Fact and not Feel Flat?It Filled my Heart with LoveI. An AgnosticII. A Religious ManCan it Be?The Old Sweet Dove of WivetonLonging for Death because of FeeblenessWho is this Who Howls and Mutters?The Frog PrinceScorpionNor We of Her to Him

Christina Rossetti: Poems and Prose (Paper 5)

Song: ‘When I am dead, my dearest’SymbolsRememberThree StagesEchoMy DreamCobwebsShut OutThe Convent ThresholdMemoryA BirthdayAn Apple-GatheringAt HomeUp-hillPromises like PiecrustDespised and RejectedA Christmas CarolGoblin MarketA Royal PrincessThe Threat of LifeMonna Innominata

Andrew Marvell: from The Metaphysical Poets (ed. Helen Gardner, Penguin) (Paper 5)

A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul and Created PleasureOn a Drop of DewThe CoronetEyes and TearsBermudasA Dialogue between the Soul and BodyThe Nymph complaining for the death of her FaunTo his Coy MistressThe Fair SingerThe Definition of LoveThe Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of FlowersThe GardenAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from IrelandTheMower

Les Murray: from Selected Poems (Carcanet) (Paper 6)

Driving through Sawmill TownsThe Burning Truck EquanimityAn Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow The Forest Hit by Modern UseThe Breach ShowerAqualung Shinto Three Poems in Memory of my MotherThe Broad Bean SermonThe Action An ImmortalThe Mitchells Second Essay on Interest: the EmuThe Powerline Incarnation A Retrospect of HumidityThe Returnees Flowering Eucalypt in AutumnCreeper Habit The Smell of Coal Smoke

The Gum Forest MountainsThe Future Time TravelImmigrant Voyage MorseThe Grassfire StanzasHomage to the Launching Place Easter 1984The Fisherman at South Head

The Dream of Wearing Shorts ForeverThe Aquatic CarnivalThe Sleepout The China Pear TreesLouvres The Vol Sprung from HeraldryThe Edgeless FastnessThe Drugs of War Bats’ Ultrasound

Derek Walcott: Selected Poetry (Heinemann) (Paper 6)

from In a Green Night

The HarbourTo a Painter in EnglandRuins of a Great HouseTales of the Islands: Chapter IIITales of the Islands: Chapter XA Careful PassionCastilianeA Lesson for this SundayAllegreConqueror

from The Castaway

The CastawayThe SwampThe FlockThe Whale, His BulwarkMissing the SeaThe Almond TreesVerandaLampfall

from The Gulf

EbbHawkMass ManLandfall, GrenadaHomecoming: Anse La RayeCold Spring HarbourLove in the ValleyNearing FortyThe Walk

from Sea Grapes

The VirginsAdam’s SongParades, ParadesThe Wind in the DooryardThe Bright FieldDark AugustSea CanesOddjob, a Bull TerrierEarthTo Return to the Trees