Component 1: Poetry - Section A: Poetry pre-1900 (open-book, clean copy) — Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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- Section A is based on the study of one pre-1900 poetry text from the list below:
- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant's Prologue and Tale (Cambridge)
- *John Donne: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
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- John Milton: Paradise Lost Book IX (Oxford)
- *John Keats: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) (for assessment in summer 2020 and 2021 only)
- * William Blake: Poems selected by Patti Smith (Vintage) (for assessment from summer 2022 onwards)
- *Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
- *Prescribed poems for study of Donne, Keats (to 2021), Blake (from 2022) and Rossetti are listed in Appendix B.
- Candidates are required to answer one question in two separate but linked parts: part (i) a question based on a poem or extract from the set text, assessing knowledge and understanding and close analysis of the poem or extract; part (ii) a question requiring candidates to show wider knowledge and understanding of the text as a whole.