English Literature

    GCSE & A-Level English Literature set texts

    Revision guides for 134 set texts across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. Find your text, see which boards study it, and get an exam-focused revision plan.

    Shakespeare

    17 texts

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    William Shakespeare

    Edexcel A-Level · OCR GCSE

    Antony and Cleopatra

    William Shakespeare

    WJEC A-Level

    Hamlet

    William Shakespeare

    AQA A-Level · Edexcel A-Level · OCR A-Level · WJEC A-Level

    Henry V

    William Shakespeare

    WJEC GCSE

    Julius Caesar

    William Shakespeare

    AQA GCSE

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare

    AQA A-Level · OCR A-Level · WJEC A-Level

    Macbeth

    William Shakespeare

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Measure for Measure

    William Shakespeare

    AQA A-Level · OCR A-Level

    Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE

    Othello

    William Shakespeare

    AQA A-Level · Edexcel A-Level · OCR A-Level · WJEC GCSE

    Richard III

    William Shakespeare

    OCR A-Level

    Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    The Merchant of Venice

    William Shakespeare

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE · WJEC A-Level

    The Taming of the Shrew

    William Shakespeare

    Edexcel A-Level

    The Tempest

    William Shakespeare

    AQA GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    The Winter's Tale

    William Shakespeare

    AQA A-Level

    Twelfth Night

    William Shakespeare

    AQA A-Level · Edexcel A-Level · Edexcel GCSE

    Drama

    9 texts

    A Doll's House

    Henrik Ibsen

    Edexcel A-Level

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    Tennessee Williams

    AQA A-Level · WJEC A-Level

    All My Sons

    Arthur Miller

    AQA A-Level

    Doctor Faustus

    Christopher Marlowe

    Edexcel A-Level

    The Duchess of Malfi

    John Webster

    OCR A-Level · WJEC A-Level

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    Oscar Wilde

    Edexcel A-Level

    The Rivals

    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    OCR A-Level

    Top Girls

    Caryl Churchill

    OCR A-Level

    Waiting for Godot

    Samuel Beckett

    AQA A-Level

    Modern Prose

    12 texts

    A Taste of Honey

    Shelagh Delaney

    WJEC GCSE

    An Inspector Calls

    J.B. Priestley

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE

    Anita and Me

    Meera Syal

    AQA GCSE

    Blood Brothers

    Willy Russell

    OCR GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Lord of the Flies

    William Golding

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE

    My Mother Said I Never Should

    Charlotte Keatley

    OCR GCSE

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    AQA GCSE

    Pigeon English

    Stephen Kelman

    AQA GCSE

    Telling Tales Anthology

    Various

    OCR GCSE

    The History Boys

    Alan Bennett

    WJEC GCSE

    The Woman in Black

    Susan Hill

    Edexcel GCSE

    Prose

    14 texts

    A Room with a View

    E.M. Forster

    AQA A-Level

    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    AQA A-Level

    Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    OCR A-Level

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    Edexcel A-Level

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

    OCR A-Level

    Rebecca

    Daphne du Maurier

    Edexcel A-Level

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    Thomas Hardy

    AQA A-Level · WJEC A-Level

    The Color Purple

    Alice Walker

    OCR A-Level

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    AQA A-Level · Edexcel A-Level · OCR A-Level

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

    AQA A-Level

    The Kite Runner

    Khaled Hosseini

    WJEC A-Level

    The Lovely Bones

    Alice Sebold

    Edexcel A-Level

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    Jean Rhys

    WJEC A-Level

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    AQA A-Level · Edexcel A-Level · OCR A-Level · WJEC A-Level

    19th Century Prose

    9 texts

    A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel A-Level · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë

    AQA GCSE

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · OCR GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Silas Marner

    George Eliot

    WJEC GCSE

    The Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    AQA GCSE

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    AQA GCSE · Edexcel GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    The War of the Worlds

    H.G. Wells

    OCR GCSE

    Welsh Literature

    2 texts

    How Green Was My Valley

    Richard Llewellyn

    WJEC A-Level

    Under Milk Wood

    Dylan Thomas

    WJEC A-Level

    Welsh Poetry

    8 texts

    A Peasant

    R.S. Thomas

    WJEC GCSE

    Catrin

    Gillian Clarke

    WJEC GCSE

    Cynddylan on a Tractor

    R.S. Thomas

    WJEC GCSE

    In the Park

    Dannie Abse

    WJEC GCSE

    Miracle on St David's Day

    Gillian Clarke

    WJEC GCSE

    Skirrid Hill

    Owen Sheers

    WJEC GCSE

    The Field-Mouse

    Gillian Clarke

    WJEC GCSE

    The Hill Fort

    R.S. Thomas

    WJEC GCSE

    Poetry

    19 texts

    Carol Ann Duffy Selected Poems

    Carol Ann Duffy

    Edexcel A-Level

    Christina Rossetti Selected Poems

    Christina Rossetti

    AQA A-Level

    Conflict Anthology

    Various

    OCR GCSE

    Conflict Poetry Anthology

    Various

    Edexcel GCSE

    Gillian Clarke Selected Poems

    Gillian Clarke

    WJEC A-Level

    John Keats Selected Poems

    John Keats

    AQA A-Level

    Love and Relationships Anthology

    Various

    OCR GCSE

    Owen Sheers Selected Poems

    Owen Sheers

    WJEC A-Level

    Philip Larkin Selected Poems

    Philip Larkin

    WJEC A-Level

    Poems of the Decade Anthology

    Various

    AQA A-Level · Edexcel A-Level

    R.S. Thomas Selected Poems

    R.S. Thomas

    WJEC A-Level

    Relationships Poetry Anthology

    Various

    Edexcel GCSE

    Seamus Heaney Selected Poems

    Seamus Heaney

    AQA A-Level

    Sylvia Plath Selected Poems

    Sylvia Plath

    WJEC A-Level

    T.S. Eliot Selected Poems

    T.S. Eliot

    OCR A-Level

    Ted Hughes Selected Poems

    Ted Hughes

    OCR A-Level

    The Romantics Anthology

    Various

    OCR A-Level

    Time and Place Poetry Anthology

    Various

    Edexcel GCSE

    William Blake Selected Poems

    William Blake

    Edexcel A-Level

    Poetry - Eduqas Anthology

    14 texts

    A Wife in London

    Thomas Hardy

    WJEC GCSE

    As Imperceptibly as Grief

    Emily Dickinson

    WJEC GCSE

    Cozy Apologia

    Rita Dove

    WJEC GCSE

    Death of a Naturalist

    Seamus Heaney

    WJEC GCSE

    Dulce et Decorum Est

    Wilfred Owen

    WJEC GCSE

    Hawk Roosting

    Ted Hughes

    WJEC GCSE

    Living Space

    Imtiaz Dharker

    WJEC GCSE

    Mametz Wood

    Owen Sheers

    WJEC GCSE

    She Walks in Beauty

    Lord Byron

    WJEC GCSE

    Sonnet 43

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    WJEC GCSE

    The Manhunt

    Simon Armitage

    WJEC GCSE

    The Soldier

    Rupert Brooke

    WJEC GCSE

    To Autumn

    John Keats

    WJEC GCSE

    Valentine

    Carol Ann Duffy

    WJEC GCSE

    Poetry - Love and Relationships

    15 texts

    Before You Were Mine

    Carol Ann Duffy

    AQA GCSE

    Climbing My Grandfather

    Andrew Waterhouse

    AQA GCSE

    Eden Rock

    Charles Causley

    AQA GCSE

    Follower

    Seamus Heaney

    AQA GCSE

    Letters from Yorkshire

    Maura Dooley

    AQA GCSE

    Love's Philosophy

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    AQA GCSE

    Mother, Any Distance

    Simon Armitage

    AQA GCSE

    Neutral Tones

    Thomas Hardy

    AQA GCSE

    Porphyria's Lover

    Robert Browning

    AQA GCSE

    Singh Song!

    Daljit Nagra

    AQA GCSE

    Sonnet 29

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    AQA GCSE

    The Farmer's Bride

    Charlotte Mew

    AQA GCSE

    Walking Away

    Cecil Day-Lewis

    AQA GCSE

    When We Two Parted

    Lord Byron

    AQA GCSE

    Winter Swans

    Owen Sheers

    AQA GCSE

    Poetry - Power and Conflict

    15 texts

    Bayonet Charge

    Ted Hughes

    AQA GCSE

    Checking Out Me History

    John Agard

    AQA GCSE

    Excerpt from The Prelude

    William Wordsworth

    AQA GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Exposure

    Wilfred Owen

    AQA GCSE

    Kamikaze

    Beatrice Garland

    AQA GCSE

    London

    William Blake

    AQA GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    My Last Duchess

    Robert Browning

    AQA GCSE

    Ozymandias

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    AQA GCSE · WJEC GCSE

    Poppies

    Jane Weir

    AQA GCSE

    Remains

    Simon Armitage

    AQA GCSE

    Storm on the Island

    Seamus Heaney

    AQA GCSE

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    Alfred Lord Tennyson

    AQA GCSE

    The Emigrée

    Carol Rumens

    AQA GCSE

    Tissue

    Imtiaz Dharker

    AQA GCSE

    War Photographer

    Carol Ann Duffy

    AQA GCSE

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