WBCSMadeEasy

Paper – I :

In Section A, candidates will have to write an essay. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below.

SECTION-A :

An essay on a literary topic

SECTION-B

1. William Shakespeare- -Macbeth -As You Like It
2. Christopher Marlowe - Edward II
3. John Donne- - 'Canonization'; -' Death be not proud'; -'The Good Morrow'
4. Andrew Marvell-'To His Coy Mistress'; -'The Garden'
5. John Milton-'Lycidas'; -Paradise Lost, Book I
6. Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock
7. William Wordsworth- -'Ode on Intimations of Immortality'; -'Tintern Abbey'
8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge -'Kubla Khan'; -'Dejection: an Ode'
9. Percy Bysshe Shelley- - 'Ode to the Westwind' ; -' Ozymandias'
10. John Keats- -'Ode to a Nightingale' -'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
11. Alfred Tennyson-'Ulysses'; -'The Lotus Eaters'; -'Tithonus'
12. Robert Browning-'The Last Ride Together'
13. Elizabeth Barrett Browning-' How do I love thee!'

SECTION-C

1. Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
2. Charles Dickens-Great Expectations
3. Thomas Hardy-The Mayor of Caster bridge
4. Mark Twain-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. Emily Bronte-Wuthering Heights
6. Mary Shelley-Frankenstein


Paper – II :

In Section A, candidates will have to respond critically to an Unseen Passage. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below.

SECTION-A

Critical analysis/response to an unseen passage in prose/verse

SECTION-B

1. W. B. Yeats-'Easter 1916';
-'Sailing to Byzantium'; -'Leda and the Swan'

2. T. S. Eliot-
-'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'; -'The Journey of the Magi'; -'Burnt Norton'

3. W.H. Auden-
-'In Memory ofW.B.Yeats'; -'Lay your sleeping head, my love'; -'The Shield of Achilles'

4. John Osborne-Look Back in Anger

5. Samuel Beckett-Waiting for Godot

6. Sylvia Plath -
-'Mirror';
- 'Nick and the Candlestick'

7. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio-'To India My Native Land';
-'My Country'

8. Kamala Das -' An Introduction

SECTION-C

1. D.H. Lawrence-The Rainbow
2. Raja Rao-Kanthapura
3. Amitava Ghosh-The Shadow Lines
4. Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart
5. James Joyce -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6. Rabindranath Tagore - 'Crisis in Civilization'
7. Virginia Woolf - 'A Room of One's Own'