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This document provides exam-style questions and guidance for the Cambridge International AS and A Level Literature in English syllabus. It lists poems, stories, and novels that may appear on exams. For paper 1, it outlines 30 poems that could be analyzed from various anthologies. It also lists 10 short stories that may be included. For paper 2, it specifies 5 plays and novels that students must prepare for close study and discussion as set texts. The document notes some changes made between versions of the syllabus, including replacing one poem and updating the set texts for 2022.

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This document provides exam-style questions and guidance for the Cambridge International AS and A Level Literature in English syllabus. It lists poems, stories, and novels that may appear on exams. For paper 1, it outlines 30 poems that could be analyzed from various anthologies. It also lists 10 short stories that may be included. For paper 2, it specifies 5 plays and novels that students must prepare for close study and discussion as set texts. The document notes some changes made between versions of the syllabus, including replacing one poem and updating the set texts for 2022.

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From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 3, the following 15 poems:

Maya Angelou, ‘Caged Bird’

Elizabeth Barret Browning, ‘Sonnet 43’

Sujata Bhatt, ‘Muliebrity’

Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’

Isobel Dixon, ‘Plenty’

Rosemary Dobson, ‘The Three Fates’

Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’

Seamus Heaney, ‘Mid-Term Break’

Mervyn Morris, ‘Little Boy Crying’

Norman Nicholson, ‘Rising Five’

Adrienne Rich, ‘Amends’

Edna St. Vincent Millay, ‘Sonnet 29’

Dennis Scott, ‘Marrysong’

Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving But Drowning’

William Wordsworth, ‘She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’

These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 1: The University of Cambridge International

Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press). Poems printed in the paper will be
as printed in this text

From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 4, the following 15 poems:

Robert Browning, ‘Love in a Life’

Lauris Edmond, ‘Waterfall’

A R D Fairburn, ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’

James Joyce, ‘I Hear an Army’

Philip Bourke Marston, ‘After’

Charlotte Mew, ‘Rooms’


Mary Monck (‘Marinda’), ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’

Alexander Pope, ‘From An Essay on Criticism’

Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’

Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘A Leave-Taking’

Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’), ‘The Forsaken Wife’

Derek Walcott, ‘Nearing Forty’

Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’

Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I Find No Peace’

Elinor Morton Wylie, ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’

These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 2: The University of Cambridge International

Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press). Poems printed in the paper will be
as printed in this text.

Carol Ann Duffy, the following 15 poems:

https://studylib.net/doc/25496871/igcse-carol-ann-duffy-poems

https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/the-darling-letters/

‘Head of English’

‘War Photographer’

‘Recognition’

‘Stealing’

‘Foreign’

‘Originally’

‘In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’

‘We Remember Your Childhood Well’

‘The Darling Letters’

‘In Your Mind’

‘The Good Teachers’

‘Valentine’

‘A Child’s Sleep’

‘Death of a Teacher’

You can find these poems in New Selected Poems 1984 – 2004, by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador). Poems printed in
the paper will be printed as in this text.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche Purple Hibiscus

Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

Henry James Washington Square

Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake

Yann Martel Life of Pi

George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four

From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, the following 10 stories:

no. 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘Dr Heidegger’s Experiment’

no. 16 O Henry, ‘The Furnished Room’

no. 18 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘The Widow’s Might’

no. 25 Henry Handel Richardson, ‘And Women Must Weep’

no. 29 Marghanita Laski, ‘The Tower’

no. 31 Janet Frame, ‘The Reservoir’

no. 32 Langston Hughes, ‘Thank You M’am’

no. 41 Anjana Appachana, ‘Sharmaji’

no. 43 Yiyun Li, ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’

no. 44 Segun Afolabi, ‘Mrs Mahmood’

This selection of 10 short stories may be found in Stories of Ourselves Volume 2: The University of Cambridge

International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English (Cambridge University Press); passages from
these stories in the paper will be printed as in this text.

Set texts for examination in 2022 – Paper 2

Candidates must answer on two different set texts from the following:

Lynn Nottage Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Arthur Miller The Crucible

R C Sherriff Journey’s End

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare Othello


Changes to version 2 of the syllabus

Changes to syllabus content • ‘The Planners’ by Boey Kim Cheng has replaced ‘The Farmhand’ by

James K Baxter in Set texts for examination in 2022 – Paper 1 on page 9

of this syllabus.

Changes to version 1 of the syllabus, published September 2019

Changes to syllabus content • The set texts have been changed for 2022. Please see section 3 of this

syllabus for the set texts for 2022.

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