Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Romantic-period poetry (any editions): William Blake, from Songs of Innocence &
Experience: ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘Nurse’s Song’ (both versions); Robert Burns, ‘To A
Mouse’; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’; John Keats, ‘Isabella, or the Pot of Basil’,
‘Ode to a Nightingale’; Felicia Hemans, ‘To Wordsworth’; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Lines
of Life’; Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘To a Skylark’, ‘Ode to the West Wind’; Charlotte Smith,
‘Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y’; William Wordsworth, ‘The Ruined Cottage’.
Schedule
Assessment
The course will be assessed by a take-home exam of between 12-15 pages, due on 15
December 2023. There will be a formal revision and exam preparation session at the end of
the course. To pass (Grade G), you will need to achieve at least 66% on the written exam. To
achieve a distinction (Grade VG), you will need to achieve at least 85% on the written exam.