Resources
Blog, events and news
- Blog: the Literary Connections blog for news, discussion about topics of interest to visitors to this site.
- Events - courses and other events for teachers and students.
- News archive: older news about English, teaching and about this site. See the Literary Connections Blog for up-to-date news.
Language resources
- Language links - essential sites for teachers and students.
- Word of the day: a free email service for students and any others interested in words.
Literature resources
Literature: general resources
- Literature links - some of the most useful sites for literature teachers.
- AQA AS and A Level English Literature A - pages of links and resources for AQA A Level courses, including both the Curriculum 2000 course ('legacy specfication') and the new one.
- Books for A Level - useful texts for A Level English Literature teachers and students - with links to Amazon if you wish to purchase.
- Christmas: reflections on Christmas reading.
- First World War: links and resources for literature from and about the Great War - a topic for AQA and OCR A Level.
- Literary Drinkers: three extracts from Pete Bunten's new books.
- Modern literature: resources for the new AQA AS units on The Struggle for Identity in Modern Literature.
- Moon poems: Sad Steps: moon-struck poems by Sidney, Jonson, Wordsworth and Larkin.
- Poetry: 'each word has a little music of its own'
- Revision guidance: preparing for AS and A Level English Literature.
- Romanticism in English literature: books and links for this key period in literary history
- Victorian literature: pages on the literature of the Victorian period and its context.
Literature: author pages
- Alan Bennett: books and links for the 'national teddy bear'
- Blake resources: especially for AS and A Level
- Blake context: an interactive exploration of the context of Blake's life and work
- Byron: links and books for the original Byronic hero
- John Clare: links, books and some poems
- Duffy: links, books and literary connections for Carol Ann Duffy
- Frayn: links and books about Michael Frayn and some comments on his novel Spies.
- Keats: To Autumn: a sample activity from NATE's Unlocking Literature CD for GCSE poetry.
- Larkin: links and books for Philp Larkin
- Miller: links and books for Arthur Miller
- Edwin Morgan: an extract in the wall of the Scottish Parliament provoked some research and produced more poems and links
- John Ruskin: Victorian artist, critic and friend of the Pre-Raphaelites
- Shakespare: where to find out more about the Bard
- Sheridan: links and books for Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Victorians: Victorian authors and their context
- Oscar Wilde: links and books for Oscar Wilde
- Wordsworth: some information and links on the poet
Music
- Music: CDs that might prove useful in the classroom - or just for pleasure.
Global resources
- Global links, including the work of MirandaNet establishing communities of 'e-citizens' around the world, such as:
Teaching resources
