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Poem 1 – ‘I, Being Born A Woman’, Edna St Vincent Millay

• Difference between Modernism and Postmodernism (page no longer exists)
• Biography: Edna St Vincent Millay
• I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Translation and Summary

Poem 2 – ‘Love and A Question’, Robert Frost

• Biography: Robert Frost

Poem 3 – ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’, Charlotte Mew

• Biography: Charlotte Mew

Poem 4 – ‘One Flesh’, Elizabeth Jennings

• Biography: Elizabeth Jennings
• Boasting a combined age of 193 - the 'world's oldest newlyweds' get married after dating for 18 years
• Ninety-year-old gay couple marries in Iowa after 72 years together
• Secret of our 75-year marriage? Argue a lot... but kiss and make up, say couple aged 98 and 99

Poem 5 – 'Meeting Point', Louis MacNeice

• Biography: Louis Macneice

Poem 6 – ‘For My Lover, Returning to His Wife’, Anne Sexton

• Poet Told All; Therapist Provides the Record
• Full Poem
• Biography: Anne Sexton

Poem 7 – ‘Wild Oats’, Philip Larkin

• Biography: Philip Larkin (part 2)
• Review Father and Sons

Poem 8 –‘Talking In Bed’, Philip Larkin

• Philip Larkin’s Women

Poem 9 – ‘Punishment’, Seamus Heaney

• Obituary: Seamus Heaney
• Punishment by Seamus Heaney – Full Text & Analysis
• Tales from the Bog by Karen E. Lange
• Information on Amber
• Interview of Seamus Heaney
• Seamus Heaney, Bog Bodies And The Disappeared

Poem 10 – ‘Vergissmeinnicht’, Keith Douglas

• Keith Douglas’ poems

Poem 11 – ‘Timer’, Tony Harrison

• Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review
• ‘Labouring’ by Blake Morrison
• ‘Timer’ by Tony Harrison
• Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration
• Why the fuss over Tony Harrison's poem V?

Poem 12 – ‘The Love Poem’, Carol Ann Duffy

• Carol Ann Duffy on her collection Love Poems – Guardian book club

Poem 13 – ‘Long Finish’, Paul Muldoon

• Paul Muldoon - Long Finish
• Review: Hay

Poem 14 – ‘To John Donne’, Michael Symmons Roberts

• Timeline of the Human Genome
• Genetic profiteering: scandal of firm 'hiding vital breast cancer data'
• Biography: Michael Symmons Roberts

Poem 15 – ‘After The Lunch’, Wendy Cope

• Wendy Cope: The unromantic poet of love
• Wendy Cope: 'My editor says she’d die of shock if she saw me on Twitter'
• The forgotten heroines of London’s ‘Ladies Bridge’

Essay Writing

• AQA A Level and AS Level Specifications
• AS and A Level Mark Schemes