English > E. Poetry

This PowerPoint includes poems by great American poets such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. This presentation provides lessons in style, literary devices, and meaning, as well as the backgrounds and stories of each of the seven featured poets. Includes detailed teacher script, photographs, audio clips, two or more student activities, artwork, maps, historical documents, speeches, and quotes. High school level. Compatible with MAC and Windows.

A text guide for students studying the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Each guide comprises three sections: an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes

Please wait, the system is processing. AS/A-Level English Literature Student Text Guides comprise three sections: an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes

A collection of poems and activities designed to win over the most reluctant 14- to 16-year-olds

Winner of the Montana 2008 Poetry Award. This immensely readable collection is among the most accessible well loved poet Janet Charman has written. Her poems always emerge out of ordinary daily experience, the life with which her readers are only too familiar. By illuminating this world she broadens perceptions and understandings without romance or melodrama. The stunning first part of Cold Snack explores the pains and pleasures (mostly the pains) of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife; the second, a single long sequence, 'Televisi... read more

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This introduction to poetry provides over 100 thematically grouped poems in a variety of styles from Australian bush songs to highly crafted sonnets, including limericks, ballads, legends, haiku and poetry on contemporary issues. Activities such as discussions, games and performances help students understand the meaning, form and language of poetry and reinforce the main message of the book - that poetry is fun!

Janet Charman offers a compassionate but unsentimental vision of life in the suburbs and in the family, the banal and ordinary world of women and children. Her creation of vivid verbal fictions and her sense of comic detachment give these poems their appeal.

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Keats is one of the principal figures in the Romantic movement, his verse tenderly fanciful and intensely musical. His stature as a poet has grown steadily despite changing fashions.

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The truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled…’ Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names – Owen, Sassoon – are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain. The poems are arranged by them... read more

A collection from an established poet of surburbia and the lives of women.

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A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.

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Student Text Guides are writtten by experienced teachers and examiners for the specific needs of students of AS/A-level English Literature, whether attempting a coursework assignment or revising for an examination. They are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background and exam advice.

T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twent... read more

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