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First I would encourage a student to consider the historical/literary/autobiographical context or literary form and techniques, among other areas of comparison, pertaining to each text. I would then ask t...

A critical commentary is a close reading of a passage of a text. You will need to explain the main features of the passage and analyse the kind of effect it creates. It can be helpful to think of a critic...

The first and most important thing is to know your texts inside out. Read and reread again the novels, plays and poetry that you are studying for your exam. Don't be afraid to annotate your books, writing...

Better grades at English literature A level can be attained by hitting all the criteria for marking. Usually this involves including context- when was the text written and what was happening at the time, ...

The admission of prose into the poetic pantheon has been hotly debated. It is fitting that Charles Baudelaire's seminal prose poetry collection 'Le Spleen de Paris' (1869), was published posthumously, ush...