Touched with Fire
An Anthology of Poems

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

Jack Hydes (Edited by)

9780521315371, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 May 1985

208 pages
21.5 x 13.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.27 kg

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. This anthology has two main objectives: to introduce students to a wide range of poetry in English from the last 400 years, and to provide them with guidance on how to approach poetry examinations. The poems are divided into six collections, not by theme or by historical period, but as satisfying small anthologies of twenty-two poems each. Clear guidance is given on what is expected in an essay for a poetry examination, and actual answers are reproduced which help the student analyse what kind of response gets good marks and why.

Introduction: To the reader
List of poems: Sections A-F
Section A: 'Footprints in the dew'
Writing essays on poetry for examinations
Section B: 'the light of setting suns'
Examples of essays written for examinations
Section C: 'Songs of other lands'
Building and annotating an anthology
Section D: 'This changeful life'
Writing essays in class
Section E: 'Fill all fruit with ripeness to the core'
Examinations with an 'open book'
Section F: 'I have heard the mermaids singing'
Learning poetry by heart
Appendix: poems referred to in the notes
Index of first lines
The poets.

Subject Areas: Educational: English literature [YQE]