Weblinks and videos for use with 5985 - Love Through the Ages Pre-1900 AS/A Level AQA Poetry Companion (exam from 2016)
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
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
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
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
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