Senior - Kowloon Bay: English

An English tutor at Balliol College in Oxford has made a list jam-packed with reading suggestions for aspiring English students.

Gresham College exists to disseminate knowledge by providing brilliant free public lectures on a vast array of topics.

Understanding the historical and political context that a piece of literature was written in can deepen our understanding of the text.

A website dedicated to making the great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible to today's teens.

Explore the ways in which key 20th-century authors experimented with new forms and themes to capture the fast-changing world around them.

From Romantic poetry to Gothic horror, from depictions of poverty and industrialisation to portrayals of the middle classes, and from crime fiction to fin de siècle decadence: the literary works of the Romantic and Victorian periods offer a wealth of topics to explore.

From wild and remote landscapes to vulnerable heroines; from violent and erotic fantasies to supernatural and uncanny happenings; Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries. How do these works reflect the political, social and cultural contexts in which they were written?

Explore the works of Shakespeare and Renaissance writers in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which they were written, and investigate the ways in which these works have been interpreted over the last four centuries.

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive (based at the University of Oxford) has a wide array of archival resources relating to literature of the First World War.

Lectures, eBooks and contextual essays aimed at students from sixth-form to university.

The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that makes and acquires recordings of poets from around the English-speaking world and makes substantial excerpts from them freely available online.