Touched with Fire: An Anthology of Poems (Cambridge School Anthologies)

Cambridge University Press, 5/1/1985
EAN 9780521315371, ISBN10: 0521315379

Paperback, 208 pages, 21.5 x 13.7 x 1.6 cm
Language: English

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. This anthology has two main objectives: to introduce students to a wide range of poetry in English from the last 400 years, and to provide them with guidance on how to approach poetry examinations. The poems are divided into six collections, not by theme or by historical period, but as satisfying small anthologies of twenty-two poems each. Clear guidance is given on what is expected in an essay for a poetry examination, and actual answers are reproduced which help the student analyse what kind of response gets good marks and why.

Introduction
To the reader
List of poems
Sections A-F
Section A
'Footprints in the dew'
Writing essays on poetry for examinations
Section B
'the light of setting suns'
Examples of essays written for examinations
Section C
'Songs of other lands'
Building and annotating an anthology
Section D
'This changeful life'
Writing essays in class
Section E
'Fill all fruit with ripeness to the core'
Examinations with an 'open book'
Section F
'I have heard the mermaids singing'
Learning poetry by heart
Appendix
poems referred to in the notes
Index of first lines
The poets.