OCR Poetry Set Texts for GCSE
Here are the poets listed on the OCR Poetry Set Texts list which you might be using for your controlled assessment work or exam preparation. You can find out more about each poet and listen to recordings of their work by choosing from the list below.
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Wilfred Owen
The poems that made Wilfred Owen famous were mostly published after his death in action a week before the end of the First World War. Powerfully influenced by Keats and Shelley, he experimented with verse from childhood,...
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Mingled the moonlight, the daylight - the last in the narrowing west;
Silence of nightfall lay over the shallowing valleys at rest
In the Earth's green breast:
Yet a small...
Geoffrey Chaucer at Poetry by Heart
http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-wife-of-bath/Read a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer and a description of The Wife of Bath's tale at the Poetry Archive's sister site, Poetry by Heart.
Robert Browning
Robert Browning was born in South London in 1812. He was largely self-educated, utilising his father's extensive library of over six thousand volumes. A voracious reader, Browning would later draw on his wide and sometimes...
