Description

Everything you need to know about Heaney and Clarke and pre-1914 poetry to succeed in your GCSE Literature exam or essay task.

York Notes for GCSE: Heaney and Clarke give you everything you need to know about the poetry of Heaney and Clarke plus detailed analysis of poems by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Yeats and many others. Inside, you’ll find summaries of individual poems and analysis of themes such as ‘Nature’ and ‘Disappointment’, plus help with understanding form and imagery. Practical advice on using quotations and improving your grade will help you to achieve your potential in the exam or assessment.

Table of Contents

Seamus Heaney

• Storm on the Island
• Perch
• Blackberry-Picking
• Death of a Naturalist
• Digging
• Mid-Term Break
• Follower
• At a Potato Digging

Gillian Clarke

• Catrin
• Baby-sitting
• Mah
• A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998
• The Field Mouse
• October
• On The Train
• Cold Knap Lake

Pre-1914 Poetry Bank

• Ben Jonson: On my first Sonnet
• William Butler Yeats: The Song of the Old Mother
• William Wordsworth: The Affliction of Margaret
• William Blake: The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found
• Charles Tichborne: Tichborne's Elegy
• Thomas Hardy: The Man He Killed
• Walt Whitman: Patrolling Barnegat
• William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
• Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
• Robert Browning: The Laboratory
• Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
• Oliver Goldsmith: The Village Schoolmaster
• Alfred Tennyson: The Eagle
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: Inversnaid
• John Clare: Sonnet