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We are the English team at Salford City College: Pendleton Centre.

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Good luck to anyone taking A2 Theology or Drama today. If you're in exams and miss lessons, please come and get the notes!
Don't forget to watch the Blake revision video materials available on our A2 Literature moodle site.
here's the article on John Cooper Clarke from The Guardian: guardian.co.uk/music/2012/ma…
No A2 Lit revision tomorrow. Running as normal on Wednesday @4pm. Profusest apologies.
Here's a link to a video podcast on Blake. It's 12 mins long so good with a cup of tea & biscuit: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/william-bl…
Saw 'Into The Woods' at college last night. It was awesome. Running Tuesday to Friday in the Eccleston. Go and see it if you can.
Jad Adams on Blake & his sex life: "Blake once suggested getting a concubine. Mrs Blake thought otherwise" guardian.co.uk/books/2006/ap…

Review: Why Mrs Blake Cried by Marsha Keith Schuchard

Marsha Keith Schuchard examines William Blake's unorthodox sex life in Why Mrs Blake Cried, says Jad Adams.

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Tom Paulin on Blake - "Blake was writing at a time of great political turbulence." guardian.co.uk/books/2007/ma…
Theo Hobson talks Blake, “Blake was a Christian who sought to bring out the religion's repressed prophetic side." guardian.co.uk/commentisfree…

A man of vision

Theo Hobson: William Blake's radicalism was not Marxist, it was aimed at liberating Christianity from the authoritarian errors of the church

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Terry Eagleton talks about William Blake - Revolution promised to bring an end to the rule of state and church: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree…

Terry Eagleton: The original political vision: sex, art and transformation

Terry Eagleton: Dissent and emancipation were holy for William Blake. He could teach our prime minister so much about how to be radical

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Want to improve your knowledge of the philosophical background to Blake? Here's Peter Ackroyd exploring just that: youtube.com/watch?v=TMA85_Ik…
And for all of you revising A2 Lit, the first 20 mins of Peter Ackroyd's Romantics Documentary is excellent: youtube.com/watch?v=BhOyI-Sj…
Here's a bit more to help with the revision for everyone in the AS Lit exam. Larkin & Betjeman talk about his poems: youtube.com/watch?v=BTdDS05x…

Philip Larkin. Monitor :Down Cemetery Rd Pt1

pt1 of a 1964 BBC Documentary showing Philip Larkin interviewed by ...

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10 May 2012
"For a huge number of people, classical music is just closed: it's peripheral within our society." George Benjamin gu.com/p/37ej6/tw
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Ladies (and gentlemen), check out the Guardian feature on embracing your inner pirate. Follow the link from the Royal Exchange tweet today.
A2 Lit trip to see 'The Duchess of Malfi' tomorrow (09/05/12): Meet at Piccadilly station in Manchester @ 09.30.
Check our English noticeboard outside D12 for key exam dates and information.
Linguistics word of the day: DEIXIS = The meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information.
Can teachers appreciate teachers?
All our lovely A2 Litters at the Blake lecture with Dr Deaglan Ó Donghaile from Salford Uni.
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