This topic is included in Paper 2. You can find notes for it below.
Notes
- A Century Later - Imtiaz Dharker
- A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
- A Wider View - Seni Seneviratne
- England in 1819 - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Homing - Liz Berry
- In a London Drawingroom - George Eliot
- Like an Heiress - Grace Nichols
- Lines Written in Early Spring - William Wordsworth
- Name Journeys - Raman Mundair
- On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 - James Berry
- Shall earth no more inspire thee - Emily Bronte
- The Jewellery Maker - Louisa Adjoa Parker
- Thirteen - Caleb Femi
- With Birds You're Never Lonely - Raymond Antrobus
- pot - Shamshad Khan
Additional Reading & Videos
- William Wordsworth context
- Analysis video – Lines Written in Early Spring
- Article – Wordsworth as a Romantic critic
- Article – The political fury of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Article – England in 1819 poem
- Emily Brontë context
- Reading of Shall earth no more inspire thee
- Reading of In a London Drawing Room
- BBC article – Who were the Windrush Generation?
- Article – James Berry and the Windrush generation
- A conversation with James Berry
- Reading of Name Journeys
- A discussion with Seni Seneviratne on A Wider View
- Liz Berry reading Homing
- A video discussion with Liz Berry on Homing
- Reading of pot
- Video analysis and context of A Century Later
- Louisa Adjoa Parker reading The Jewellery Maker
- Article – Raymond Antrobus
- An interview with Roger Robinson
- An interview with Grace Nichols
- Article – Caleb Femi’s childhood and life
- BBC guide to Caleb Femi’s Thirteen
