SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION
ENGLISH
(POST RELATED)
Subject Code: 121
Total Marks-200
Part-I
Marks: 100
(Shakespeare to Romantic Period)
(Candidates will have to answer five questions in all of twenty marks each- two from group-A and three from group-B. In group-A, there will be one question from each text. In group-B, there will be one question from each author.)
Group A - Marks 50
Shakespeare: “Hamlet”, “King Lear’, “Macbeth”, “Othello”, ‘The Tempest”.
Group B - Marks 50
Milton : “Paradise Lost”, Book IX and X
Swift : “Gulliver's Travels”
Wordsworth: " Tintern Abbey",” Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
Coleridge :" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",
“Kubla Khan", " Dejection: an Ode"
Shelley :“Ode to the West Wind", “To a Skylark"
Keats : Odes
Jane Austen : “Pride and Prejudice”
Part-II
Marks: 100
(Victorian to Modern Period)
Group A - Marks 50
(There will be one question of 20 marks from each author. Candidates will have to answer two questions from this group.)
Tennyson : “Ulysses", " The Lotos Eaters",
“Tithonus", " In Memoriam" (selections)
Browning : “Andrea del Sarto" " Fra Lippo Lippi"
“My Last Duchess", " Rabbi Ben Ezra"
Mathew Arnold : “Dover Beach", " The Scholar Gipsy", " Thyrsis"
Dickens : Great Expectations
Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbarvilles
Group B - Marks 50
(There will be one question of 20 marks from each author. Candidates will have to answer three questions from this group.)
Yeats : Selections
T.S.Eliot : “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
“The Waste Land"
D. H. Lawrence : "Sons and Lovers"
Conrad : "Heart of Darkness"
Arthur Miller : "Death of a Salesman"
Beckett : "Waiting for Godot"