VCE English and EAL, English Language, and Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• The Complete poems Emily Dickinson

Analysis

• Ordinary themes with extraordinary talent
• Defining the self
• The influence of Latin poetics on Emily Dickinson's style
• On Emily Dickinson

Individual poems

Poems for study:  ‘There’s something quieter than sleep’,  ‘Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple’,  ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’,  ‘There’s a certain Slant of light’,  ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’,  ‘There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House’,  ‘This is my letter to the World’,  ‘I heard a Fly buzz – when I died’,  ‘Two Butterflies went out at Noon’,  ‘To know just how He suffered – would be dear’,  ‘Publication – is the Auction’, ‘Because I could not stop for Death’,  ‘My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun’,  ‘From Blank to Blank’,  ‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’,  ‘The Frost of Death was on the Pane’,  ‘Like Rain it sounded till it curved’,  ‘The saddest noise, the sweetest noise’

• search these entries from Gale Literary sources. You can then narrow to "Name of Work" to see of there is an analysis of a specific poem.

  

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Resources at the library:

• William Butler Yeats poems selected Seamus Heaney

In print critiques

• WB Yeats poetry
• WB Yeats criticism

Analysis

• Larrissy, E. (2015). Crossing common ground: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney  Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 21(2), 281-299,481,488.
• Holberg, S. M. (2004). Sailing to Byzantium': A New Source and a New Reading In D. M. Galens (Ed.), Poetry Criticism (Vol. 51). Gale. (Reprinted from English Language Notes, 1974, December, 12[2], 112-116)

Individual poems

Poems for study: ‘Adam’s Curse’, ‘To a Shade’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Among School Children’, ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz’, ‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’, ‘Byzantium’, ‘A Last Confession’, ‘The Curse of Cromwell’, ‘The Man and the Echo’

• search these entries from Gale Literary sources. You can then narrow to "Name of Work" to see of there is an analysis of a specific poem.

  

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Slessor, Kenneth Selected Poems North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1988.

Study guides

• Teacher guide
• Sciortino, Sue., and Kenneth Slessor. Insight guide Selected Poems : Kenneth Slessor . Elsternwick, Vic: Insight Publications, 2007.

Analysis

• Kirkpatrick, Peter (2015)  Essay ReadingAustralia
• We hold a range of books of criticism and interpretation on Kenneth Slessor. (None of these are eBooks so can only be accessed within the Library)

Individual poems

Poems for study: ‘Earth-Visitors’, ‘Pan at Lane Cove’, ‘Winter Dawn’, ‘Stars’, ‘The Night-Ride’, ‘Realities’, ‘Music’ (sections I–VI), ‘Captain Dobbin’, ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’, ‘Country Towns’, ‘Out of Time’, ‘North Country’, ‘South Country’, ‘William Street’, ‘Five Bells’, ‘Beach Burial’

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Poetry collections

• Books about the author and her poetry

Individual poems

Poems for study: ‘Little Red-Cap’, ‘Queen Herod’, ‘Mrs Midas’, ‘Mrs Aesop’, ‘Mrs Darwin’, ‘Mrs Sisyphus’, ‘Mrs Faust’, ‘Anne Hathaway’, ‘Medusa’, ‘Circe’, ‘Mrs Lazarus’, ‘Mrs Icarus’, ‘Eurydice’, ‘The Kray Sisters’, ‘Elvis’s Twin Sister’, ‘Pope Joan’, ‘Penelope’, ‘Demeter’

Broad analysis

• O’Brien, S. (2015). Carol Ann Duffy: A Stranger Here Myself  In L. J. Trudeau (Ed.), Poetry Criticism (Vol. 166). Gale. (Reprinted from The Deregulated Muse, pp. 160-168, 1998, Bloodaxe)
• Thomas, J. E. (2015). ‘  The Intolerable Wrestle with Words’: The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy  In L. J. Trudeau (Ed.), Poetry Criticism (Vol. 166). Gale. (Reprinted from Bête noire, 1988, 6, 78-88)
• Carol Ann Duffy at the Scottish Poetry Library - includes text of poems. (External website, retrieved 19/10/2023)

Biography & reference

• Something About the Author

Copies of the text

• Throat by Ellen van Neervan
• Throat (EBook)

• Other books by Ellen van Neerven

Analysis & review

• Fry, Declan (23 June 2020)  ‘I was the Only Blak Queer in the world’: on Ellen van Neerven’s Throat Overland
• Klee, L. (2021). Throat  TLS. Times Literary Supplement, (6183), 25.
• Poetry from the suburbs. (2020, May 09). The Courier - Mail

Individual poems

Poems for study: ‘18Cs’, ‘Iogonliveon’, ‘Chermy’, ‘Bold & Beautiful’, ‘The Only Blak Queer in the World’, ‘A ship-shaped hole in the forest’, ‘Expert’, ‘Women are still not being heard’, ‘Treaty of shared power’, ‘Queens’, ‘All that is loved (can be saved)’, ‘this deadly love’, ‘I used to have a name (for this)’, ‘Terra Nova’, ‘I grieve in sleep’, ‘Paper ships’

Copies of the text

• The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt.

Reviews & analysis

• Dodds,Benjamin The Right Amount of Danger : Benjamin Dodds reviews Sarah Holland-Batt’s The Hazards Verity La, September, 2016
• Cottier,P. S. The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt [review] Plumwood Mountain [Online], August, 2016
• Ladd, M. Charmed into awe, undercut with danger. Sydney Morning Herald 24 Oct 2015 p.24
• Tsao,Tiffany Review - The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt Mascara Literary Review  no. 18 October, 2015

Interview

• Sarah Holland-Batt in conversation with Rosanna Licari StylusLit No 3 2018