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Genre (AO3)

Contextual Information (AO3)

• Definition of tragedy – Aristotle, Poetics (Book VI)

Poem-by-Poem Analysis

Geoffrey Chaucer: Extract from the Prologue of ‘The Monk’s Tale’

• Interlinear translations of The Prologue of the Monk’s Prologue and The Monk’s Tale

John Milton: Extract from Paradise Lost (lines 221–270)

• John Crace, ‘John Milton - our greatest word-maker’, The Guardian Online

Christina Rossetti: ‘Jessie Cameron’

• George P. Landow, ‘Ruskin's Discussion of the Pathetic Fallacy’

W.B. Yeats: ‘The Death of Cuchulain’

• Roxanne Bodsworth, ‘Changing the Story: Transformations of Myth in Yeat's Poem ‘Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea’’

Whole-anthology Analysis

Characterisation (AO1) / Character relationships (AO1)

• ‘Aristotle & The Elements Of Tragedy’

Form and Structure (AO3)

• K. E. Gilligan, ‘Redefining the Elegy in the Twentieth Century: Thomas Hardy's The Convergence of the Twain And Sylvia Plath's Daddy’

Themes (AO1)

• George P. Landow, ‘Thomas Hardy's Religious Beliefs’

Attitudes and Values (AO3)

• ‘W H Auden Society Quotes’

Use of Language (AO2)

• The Phrontistry, ‘Rhetorical Devices’

Literary Approaches (AO5)

• ‘Sigmund Freud: Life and Work’
• Frank T. McAndrew, ‘The Freudian Symbolism in Your Dreams’

Critical Reception (AO5)

• Amanda M. Leff, ‘Lydgate Rewrites Chaucer: The General Prologue Revisited’, The Chaucer Review 46: 4 (2012), pp. 472–479.
• Martin Bidney, ‘The Secretive-Playful Epiphanies of Robert Frost: Solitude, Companionship, and the Ambivalent Imagination’, Papers on Language & Literature
• Sheldon W. Liebman, ‘Robert Frost, Romantic’, Twentieth Century Literature, 42: 4 (1996)
• Eric Carl Link, ‘Nature's Extra-Vagrants: Frost and Thoreau in the Maine Woods’, Papers on Language & Literature (1997)

Bibliography / Further Reading

Websites/ E-journals

• ‘Aristotle & The Elements Of Tragedy’
• Aristotle, Poetics (Book VI)
• Betjeman, John, How To Get On In Society
• Bidney, Martin, ‘The Secretive-Playful Epiphanies of Robert Frost: Solitude, Companionship, and the Ambivalent Imagination’, Papers on Language & Literature
• Bodsworth, Roxanne, ‘Changing the Story: Transformations of Myth in Yeat’s Poem ‘Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea’’
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Prologue of the Monk’s Tale and The Monk’s Tale
• Crace, John, ‘John Milton – our greatest word-maker’, The Guardian Online
• Gilligan, K. E., ‘Redefining the Elegy in the Twentieth Century: Thomas Hardy’s The Convergence of the Twain And Sylvia Plath’s Daddy’
• Landow, George P., ‘Ruskin’s Discussion of the Pathetic Fallacy’
• Landow, George P., ‘Thomas Hardy’s Religious Beliefs’:
• Leff, Amanda M., ‘Lydgate Rewrites Chaucer: The General Prologue Revisited’, The Chaucer Review 46: 4 (2012), pp. 472–479.
• Liebman, Sheldon W., ‘Robert Frost, Romantic’, Twentieth Century Literature, 42: 4 (1996)
• Link, Eric Carl, ‘Nature's Extra-Vagrants: Frost and Thoreau in the Maine Woods’, Papers on Language & Literature (1997)
• McAndrew, Frank T., ‘The Freudian Symbolism in Your Dreams’
• Milton, John, Complete Poems – Vol. IV – The Harvard Classics (1909–14)
• Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy (trans, Ian C. Johnston)
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, ‘Full text of ‘The world as will and idea’
• ‘Sigmund Freud: Life and Work’
• The Phrontistry, ‘Rhetorical Devices’
• ‘W H Auden Society Quotes’

Answers

Poem-by-Poem Analysis

• The lyrics to Cab Calloway’s blues standard ‘St James’s Infirmary’

Whole-anthology Analysis

• John Milton, Complete Poems – Vol. IV – The Harvard Classics (1909–14)
• Arthur Schopenhauer, ‘Full text of ‘The world as will and idea’

• Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (trans, Ian C. Johnston)