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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William Shakespeare
Little is known about Shakespeare's life. Existing records give tantalising glimpses: he was born in 1564, the eldest son of an illiterate but locally prominent Stratford glover, married (at eighteen) the twenty-six-year-...
Christina Rossetti
Many readers first come across Christina Rossetti as the writer of the words of the carol 'In the Bleak Midwinter', or the deceptively simple, but actually strange and powerful, fairy tale in verse, Goblin Market. But her...
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...
