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‘Whoso List to Hunt’ by Sir Thomas Wyatt

• The tradition of courtly love (page no longer exists)

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Shakespeare's life and times
• William Shakespeare: The life and legacy of England’s bard

‘The Flea’ by John Donne

• The Nation's Favourite Poet Result

‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell

• How has life expectancy changed over time?
• Poem of the week: To His Coy Mistress

‘The Scrutiny’ by Richard Lovelace

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• How the Tudor dynasty shaped modern Britain
• A timeline of contemporary European events, 1400 to 1550 (British Library website temporarily unavailable)
• Richard Lovelace

‘Absent from Thee’ by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Civil War and Revolution

‘The Garden of Love’ by William Blake

• Religion through time in the UK
• William Blake's Songs of Experience – The Garden of Love
• Church of England weekly attendance falls below 1m for first time
• Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Analysing William Blake's Poetry

‘Ae Fond Kiss’ by Robert Burns

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Burns love poems - Burns & the lassies
• Timeline of English history
• The Romantics (British Library website temporarily unavailable)
• The Romantic Period, Movement, Style, and Spirit (page no longer exists)

‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord George Byron

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Lord Byron; The Life of George Noel Gordon – Facts & Information
• She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

‘Remember’ by Christina Rossetti

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Victorians
• Christina Rossetti

‘The Ruined Maid’ by Thomas Hardy

• Thomas Hardy Society
• Thomas Hardy: The Ruined Maid (page no longer exists)
• The Ruined Maid

‘At an Inn’ by Thomas Hardy

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Victorian Britain
• Thomas Hardy's Philosophical Outlook

‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Biography Of Fanny Brawne
• John Keats’s Exquisite Love Letter to Fanny Brawne
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• Keats' "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" (1820) (page no longer exists)

Videos

‘Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae’ by Ernest Dowson

• Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson

Themes, Attitudes and Values

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• Timelines

Answers

• Brilliantly LIT (page no longer exists)
• The English Civil War
• Richard Lovelace
• Carpe Diem: Poems for Making the Most of Time
• The Metaphysical and the Cavalier Poets
• Poem of the week: To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace