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Poem 1 – ‘Whoso List To Hunt’ By Thomas Wyatt

• Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: 'The Unfinished Story' by Libby Schofield
• Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey

Poem 2 – ‘Sonnet 116’ By William Shakespeare

• The Literature Network: Renaissance Literature
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• Shakespeare Online: Words Shakespeare Invented
• William Shakespeare the Upstart Crow
• Shakespeare Authorship Question
• Couplet Examples
• Has Shakespeare's dark lady finally been revealed? By Hannah Furness
• Reading Shakespeare's Plays
• How to Understand Shakespeare Words
• Poetry Pages: Sonnet 116

Poem 3 – ‘The Flea’ By John Donne

• The Dynamics of Male/Female Relationships in John Donne’s Love Poetry
• 'Fleas Are for Lovers' by Bridget Lowe
• Special Collections Library: Rare Book Collections
• A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
• Songs and Ballads [link no longer working]
• Typography and Obscenity: The Case of John Donne’s 'The Flea'

Poem 4 – ‘To His Coy Mistress’ By Andrew Marvell

• Biography: Andrew Marvell

Poem 5 – ‘The Scrutiny’ By Richard Lovelace

• What is the meaning of 'The Scrutiny' by Richard Lovelace? [Link no longer working]
• NNDB Profile: Richard Lovelace

Poem 6 – ‘Absent From Thee’ By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

• Rochester: the debauched poet who mocked the king
• Biography of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Poem 7 – ‘The Garden Of Love’ By William Blake

• The Secret World, and Sexual Rebellion, of William Blake
• William Blake: A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Poem 8 – ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ By Robert Burns

• Ae Fond Kiss Full Poem

Poem 9 – ‘She Walks In Beauty’ By Lord Byron

• George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron: 'Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know' [link no longer working]
• Analysis on the poem 'She Walks in Beauty'
• Wikipedia: 'She Walks in Beauty'
• Wikipedia: Augusta Leigh
• Wikipedia: Hebrew Melodies
• Lord Byron and His Forgotten Hebrew Melodies
• Reification and the Dandy: Beppo, Byron, and other Queer Things
• Oscar Wilde Opinion Of Lord Byron

Videos

Poem 10 – ‘Remember’ By Christina Rossetti

• The Poetry of Christina Rossetti: Publication and Early Responses
• This Day in Letters: 3 April (1848): Charlotte Brontë to William Smith Williams
• A Review of Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre [link no longer working]

Poem 11 – ‘The Ruined Maid’ By Thomas Hardy

• The World Travels: Thomas Hardy and Dorset [link no longer working]
• Biography of Thomas Hardy
• Thomas Hardy Greatest Works
• Seven Things Your Name Reveals About You [link no longer working]
• Philip Larkin On Thomas Hardy
• Chapter 3: Phantoms, or the Child in Time [link no longer working]
• The Language of Thomas Hardy
• Google Books: Student Companion to Thomas Hardy

Poem 12 – ‘At an Inn’ By Thomas Hardy

• 'The Ruined Maid'
• BBC History: All Change in the Victorian Age

Poem 13 – ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ By John Keats

• Keats' Kingdom: Notes on 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' by John Keats [link no longer working]
• Fanny Brawne Biography & Facts

Poem 14 – ‘Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’ By Ernest Dowson

• The Language of Flowers
• Poem of the week: 'Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae' by Ernest Dowson
• Biography of Ernest Christopher Dowson

Essay Writing Practice

• AQA AS English Literature A Paper 1: Love through the Ages Mark scheme [link no longer working]
• AQA A level English Literature A Paper 1: Paper 1: Love through the Ages Mark scheme [link no longer working]
• AQA English Literature A Specification