1.  The five "O" levels she took in English literature and language, history, geography and art resulted in "D" grades which are fails.

2.  Brenda was going to a college where there was an excellent women's hockey team, and Belinda to university to read English literature.

3.  "I wanted to write, but when you study English literature it paralyses you from being a creative writer, because what you read is so wonderful all the time, you feel you can't possibly pit yourself against them and try yourself."

4.  If we set the poem's rubric, which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau, on one side for the moment, we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance - a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century.

5.  This, as Henry looked at it, the piped organ music swelling through the chapel, seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature.

6.  The preceding age of English literature, after all, between the two world wars, had been notably un-British: its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats, its greatest novelists - Bloomsbury apart - James Joyce and a handful of Americans who, for the most part, had preferred to stay at home.

7.  Between the wars, in a word, English literature briefly ceased to be British, and there were those who imagined the change might easily be irreversible.

8.  In that age English literature, like a prodigal, came home.

9.  Both saw English literature as the expression of a nation, and had little truck with foreign theorising.

10.  "English literature."