English (BCS Professional Cadre)

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"