Summary:
AS/A-Level English Literature Student Text Guides comprise three sections:
an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives
Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text
Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes

• Succint and accessible coverage of all the key aspects of the set text, including contexts, interpretations and controversies
  

• Clear outline of the exam board specifications and their Assessment Objectives
  

• Invaluable Question and Answer section with various types of questions, plans, mark schemes and answers
  

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Aims of the guide
Assessment Objectives
Revision advice
Writing examination essays
Text Guidance
Biography
Poet, painter and engraver
Blake’s London
Politics and revolution
Blake and social reform
Religion, morality and the Bible
Visions, dreams and prophecies
Blake, Rousseau and Swedenborg
Milton and Paradise Lost
Gothic and Romantic influences
Analysis of the poems
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
Blake’s mythological world
Musical interpretations of the Songs
Poetic metre
Types of love
Animal imagery
Literary terms
Questions and Answers
Essay planning
Examination essay titles
Sample essays
Using the critics
References and further study

About the Author(s):
Andrew Green an experienced teacher of English at A-level. He has contributed a number of articles to The English Review and is author of various Teacher Resource Packs and Student Text Guides, also published by Philip Allan Updates.