VCE Literature guide - units 3 & 4

VCE Literature - Poetry

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Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

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  • Dickie, Margaret. Elizabeth Bishop: Text and Subtext. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in South Atlantic Review, vol. 59, no. 4, Nov. 1994, pp. 1-19).

  • Scott, Nathan A., Jr. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet without Myth. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 60, no. 2, Spring 1984, pp. 255-275).

  • Vendler, Helen. The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism), edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002.  (Originally published in Critical Inquiry, vol. 13, no. 4, Summer 1987, pp. 825-838).

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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

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Throat by Ellen van Neervan

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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’

The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt

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William Butler Yeats Poems selected by Seamus Heaney

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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’

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At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao

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