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All 15 poems in the Edexcel Time and Place anthology. From Romantic celebrations of nature to modern poems about migration, identity and belonging, the collection explores how places shape us and how time changes the way we see them.
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John Keats
A sensuous ode celebrating the abundance and quiet beauty of autumn.
William Wordsworth
A surprised Romantic finds the city at dawn more beautiful than nature.
William Blake
A walk through London exposes suffering and institutional oppression.
Emily Dickinson
A walk to the sea becomes a strange, almost romantic encounter with the tide.
Full study pages for these poems are in development. Many are still in copyright, so we will provide key quotations, analysis and comparison notes rather than the full text.
Thomas Hardy
A man returns to a deserted picnic spot and meditates on time and loss.
Edward Thomas
A train pauses at a tiny station and the speaker hears the whole of England.
Robert Browning
An Englishman abroad longs nostalgically for an idealised English spring.
U.A. Fanthorpe
A nervous flyer and a confident commuter share a plane journey.
Fleur Adcock
A holidaymaker realises the postcard-perfect island is not what she imagined.
Moniza Alvi
A British-Pakistani teenager feels caught between two cultural worlds.
Grace Nichols
A Caribbean storm in England awakens the speaker’s connection to her roots.
Tatamkhulu Afrika
A return to District Six in Cape Town reveals apartheid’s lingering scars.
Sophie Hannah
A satirical voice mocks the smug traveller who looks down on tourists.
John Davidson
A walker on the Marsh hears the world singing in light, sound and metal.
Elizabeth Jennings
A return to a familiar place sharpens the pain of someone’s absence.
Time and Place rewards strong contrasts of attitude. Pair a celebratory poem like Composed Upon Westminster Bridge with a darker urban view in London — they describe the same city only a few years apart, with utterly different feelings.