WJEC GCE AS English Language and Literature Poetry Pre-1914

For those that are studying WJEC GCE AS English Language and Literature course, here is a list of all poems from their syllabus analyzed. These are the poems that apply to exams for Unit 1 Section A. If you are struggling to understand any of the terms used in our analysis, explore our literary term glossary.

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WJEC GCE AS English Language and Literature Anthology

Poetry Pre-1914

1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ^{[PDF Guide]} by Christopher Marlowe
2. Sonnet 130 ^{[PDF Guide]} by William Shakespeare ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. There Is A Garden In Her Face ^{[PDF Guide]} by Thomas Campion
4. The Collar ^{[PDF Guide]} by George Herbert
5. Sonnet XIX: On His Blindness ^{[PDF Guide]} by John Milton ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. To My Dear and Loving Husband ^{[PDF Guide]} by Anne Bradstreet
7. A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General ^{[PDF Guide]} by Jonathan Swift
8. The Schoolboy ^{[PDF Guide]} by William Blake ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (September 3, 1802) ^{[PDF Guide]} by William Wordsworth ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Kubla Khan (Extract) ^{[PDF Guide]} by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. She Walks in Beauty ^{[PDF Guide]} by Lord Byron ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Ozymandias ^{[PDF Guide]} by Percy Bysshe Shelley ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. To Autumn ^{[PDF Guide]} by John Keats ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? ^{[PDF Guide]} by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. The Kraken ^{[PDF Guide]} by Alfred Lord Tennyson ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Spellbound ^{[PDF Guide]} by Emily Brontë ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. Song (When I am dead, my dearest) ^{[PDF Guide]} by Christina Rossetti ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. The Darkling Thrush ^{[PDF Guide]} by Thomas Hardy ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. God’s Grandeur ^{[PDF Guide]} by Gerard Manley Hopkins
20. Leisure ^{[PDF Guide]} by William Henry Davies