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GCSE Resources Page

Poets listed on the National Curriculum (below)

see also:  www.poetrylive.net
Live appearances around the UK by poets Simon Armitage, 
Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Fleur Adcock, John Agard, 
Moniza Alvi, John Cooper Clarke, Imatiaz Dharker, 
U.A. Fanthorpe, Tom Leonard, Grace Nichols, 
Peter Buckroyd/Tony Childs. Loads of relevant resources 
for teachers and pupils.

http://www.gcse.com/ 
Award-winning tutorials, tips & advice for students, parents & teachers. An Approved Content Provider for the DFES National Grid for Learning. A National Curriculum "Trusted Partner".

         
 

Simon Armitage 
www.simonarmitage.co.uk

Matthew Arnold
http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/arnold/arnoldov.html

Elizabeth Barrett Browning http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/ebb/browningov.html

William Blake
www.blakearchive.org

Emily Bronte
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/bronte/ebronte/ebronteov.html

Robert Browning
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/rb/rbov.html

Robert Burns
http://www.robertburns.org/

Lord Byron
http://www.cas.astate.edu/engphil/gallery/byron.html

Geoffrey Chaucer
http://geoffreychaucer.org

John Clare
http://human.ntu.ac.uk/clare/society.html

Gillian Clarke
http://www.gillianclarke.co.uk

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

Emily Dickinson
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html

John Donne
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/

Carol Ann Duffy http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Scottish_Literature/Authors/Duffy,_Carol_Ann/

John Dryden
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/dryden.htm
(selected quotes): http://www.peart.com/bartleby/bartlett/191.html

T.S. Eliot 
http://www.deathclock.com/thunder/

Robert Frost
http://www.amherstcommon.com/walking_tour/frost.html

Thomas Gray
http://www.thomasgray.org

Seamus Heaney http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney-cov.html

George Herbert
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/

Robert Herrick
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/

Gerard Manley Hopkins
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/hopkins/gmhov.html

Ted Hughes 
www.uni-leipzig.de/~angl/hughes/

John Keats
http://portico.bl.uk/exhibitions/keats/overview.html

Philip Larkin
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=179
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/larkin.htm

Robert Lowell
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lowell/lowell.htm

Andrew Marvell
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/

Roger McGough 
http://www.rogermcgough.org.uk

Medbh McGuckian 
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/poets.html#McGuckian

John Milton
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/

Les Murray 
http://www.lesmurray.org/

Grace Nichols 
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/nichols.htm

Wilfred Owen 
http://bewoner.dma.be/ericlaer/cultural/owen.html

Sylvia Plath http://stinfwww.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~beckmann/plath.html

Alexander Pope
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/POPE.HTM

Christina Rossetti
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/crossetti/crov.html

W. Shakespeare sonnets
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8916/shelley.html

Stevie Smith
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=300

Edmund Spenser
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm

Lord Alfred Tennyson
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/tennyson/tennyov.html

Edward Thomas 
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/thomas.html

RS Thomas
http://www.rsthomas.com/

Henry Vaughan
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/vaughan/

Derek Walcott 
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/walcott.htm

William Wordsworth
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=315

http://www.stockportmbc.gov.uk/6thform/wordsworth.htm

Sir Thomas Wyatt
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wyatt.htm

WB Yeats
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/yeats.html

Benjamin Zephaniah 
http://www.oneworld.org/zephaniah/


See also  

Assessing Your Pupils' Poetry  on this website
Practical advice for teachers, about assessing poetry together with suggestions for further reading.  Written by Sue Dymoke (poetryclass team poet).

The schoolsnet.com site 'Revision' section (scroll down to English) for study of particular poets. "We can help you study for your GCSE examinations with our unrivalled revision units in all the main national curriculum subjects."  Currently includes material on Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage.  Web address:
http://www.schoolsnet.com/cgi-bin/inetcgi/schoolsnet/classroom/classroom.jsp


Attention teachers and students: if you would like to suggest a website appropriate to GCSE work, please email your suggestion to: webeditor@poetrysociety.org.uk

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