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Edexcel A Level John Donne Anthology

Thorough analysis of all Donne’s poetry set by Edexcel, including the titles, outlining the key conceits, the form, analysis of specific quotes, and the relevant context tailored to each poem. Also includes critical quotes and covers the key characteristics of metaphysical poetry.

Poems include:

  • ‘The Good-Morrow’ (‘Good’). Some of this is sampled.
  • ‘Song: Go and catch a falling star’ (‘Star’)
  • ‘Woman’s Constancy’ (‘Constancy’)
  • ‘The Sun Rising’ (‘Sun’) This is sampled.
  • ‘The Canonization’ (‘Canonization’)
  • ‘Song: Sweetest love, I do not go’ (‘Sweetest’)
  • ‘Air and Angels’ (‘Air’)
  • ‘The Anniversary’ (‘Anniversary’)
  • ‘Twickenham Garden’ (‘Garden’)
  • ‘Love’s Growth’ (‘Growth’)
  • ‘A Valediction: of Weeping’ (‘Weeping’)
  • ‘Love’s Alchemy’ (‘Alchemy’)
  • ‘The Flea’ (‘Flea’)
  • ‘A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day’ (‘Day’)
  • ‘The Apparition’ (‘Apparition’)
  • ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ (‘Mourning’)
  • ‘The Ecstasy’ (‘Ecstasy’)
  • ‘The Funeral’ (‘Funeral’)
  • ‘The Relic’ (‘Relic’)
  • ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ (‘Bed’)
  • ‘HSI: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?’ (‘decay?’)
  • ‘HSV: I am a little world’ (‘world’)
  • ‘HSVI: This is my play’s last scene’ (‘play’)
  • ‘HSVII: At the round earth’s imagin’d corners’ (‘corners’)
  • ‘HSX: Death, be not proud’ (‘Death,’)
  • ‘HSXI: Spit in my face, you Jews’ (‘Jews’)
  • ‘HSXIV: Batter my heart’ (‘Batter’)
  • ‘Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward’ (‘1613’)
  • ‘Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness’ (‘Sickness’)
  • ‘A Hymn to God the Father’ (‘Father’)
  • Characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry

*Updated August 2020 with some slight tweaks.

This resource has been downloaded by hundreds of teachers (Sept. 2023).

On my shop, see also my Edexcel A Level John Donne Essays. In a similar style to this analysed anthology, I also have an Edexcel A Level Poems of the Decade Anthology available.

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aspiringteacher95

3 years ago
5

Thank you very much - will be adapting for the CCEA spec. Really, really appreciated!

carolcody789

4 years ago
5

Excellent

Isaacjlee2002

4 years ago
5

This is an excellent resource. It is succinctly crafted, yet has the relevant key information to build a developed essay.

hs587

4 years ago
5

Utterly fantastic - worth every penny! So detailed and well-researched. BUY

heatherannpugh

4 years ago
5

The amount of work that has gone into this is incredible. For someone who finds the teaching methods in class difficult, this is going to save my life! Such good value for money and very thorough, yet organised impeccably to make it easy to understand. Thank you, Irene!

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