Blue Remembered Hills
Dennis Potter

Consider the view that in Blue Remembered Hills, the countryside is presented as a place of refuge from the evils of civilisation.
Refer to both the text and the TV film which you have seen.

“In your answer you must refer substantially to at least three texts.”

To what extent can Larkin's poetry and the pastoral in general be taken as a lament for changing landscape and disappearing ways of life?

“In your answer you must refer substantially to at least three texts.”

To what extent do Fanthorpe's poems and two other texts suggest that a pastoral treatment of the past will be inevitably prettified and nostalgic?

Blue Remembered Hills
Dennis Potter

Discuss whether Blue Remembered Hills is a pastoral drama or an anti-pastoral piece.

“In your answer you must refer substantially to at least three texts.”

“The concept of the rural ideal is a complex one, involving many different attitudes and values.” Discuss this view in relation to the presentation of nature in MacCaig's poetry and in two other texts.

Tony Harrison

“In your answer you must refer substantially to at least three texts.”

Explore how pastoral conventions of subject matter and style have been incorporated and used in the texts you have studied.

Blue Remembered Hills
Dennis Potter

Childhood has been depicted by some pastoral writers as a lost Golden Age and a time of closeness to Nature. Does Blue Remembered Hills show Potter to be one of those writers?

Timed essay:
Friday 26th March

In what ways is Harrison's poem, A Kumquat for John Keats a pastoral poem?

“In your answer you must refer substantially to at least three texts."

How do writers present the clash between town and country?

Timed essay:
Friday 23rd April