2022 A-Level H2 Literature in English Paper 3 Texts

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PAPER 3: THE MIND AND SELF IN LITERATURE (3 hours)

Three of the following texts:

  • *Sylvia Plath: selection of poems from Ariel
  • William Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book One & Book Two (1805 version)
  • James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • J M Coetzee: Age of Iron
  • Pat Barker: Regeneration
  • Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • William Shakespeare: Hamlet
  • *Elizabeth Jennings: selection of poems from Selected Poems (Carcanet edition)
  • Harold Pinter: The Caretaker

All texts are set for 2022 and 2023.

*Sylvia Plath: selection of poems from Ariel

  • Sheep in Fog
  • The Applicant
  • Lady Lazarus
  • Tulips
  • Cut
  • Elm
  • The Night Dances
  • Poppies in October
  • Ariel
  • Death & Co.
  • Getting There
  • Medusa
  • A Birthday Present
  • Daddy
  • Fever 103°
  • Paralytic
  • Poppies in July
  • Contusion
  • Edge

*Elizabeth Jennings: selection of poems from Selected Poems (Carcanet edition)(Selection is different from the one examined from 2018–2020.)

  • Beyond Possession
  • In the Night
  • Old Man
  • A Game of Chess
  • My Grandmother
  • World I have not Made
  • To a Friend with a Religious Vocation Sequence in Hospital
  • Man in a Park Father to Son Warning to Parents The Young Ones
  • A Mental Hospital Sitting-Room The Interrogator
  • Night Sister
  • Words from Traherne
  • On a Friend’s Relapse and Return to a Mental Clinic Night Garden of the Asylum
  • Chinese Art
  • Love Poem