WBCS English
Optional Paper
Index
| S/L | Chapters | Chapter Details |
| Paper 1 | ||
| SECTION-A | ||
| 1 | An essay on a literary topic | In Section A, candidates will have to write an essay. Texts for detailed study in Sections B and C are given below |
| SECTION-B | ||
| 2 | William Shakespeare- -Macbeth -As You Like It | |
| 3 | Christopher Marlowe - Edward II | |
| 4 | John Donne- Canonization, Death be not proud, The Good Morrow | |
| 5 | Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress, The Garden | |
| 6 | John Milton-'Lycidas'; -Paradise Lost, Book I | |
| 7 | Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock | |
| 8 | William Wordsworth- -'Ode on Intimations of Immortality'; -'Tintern Abbey' | |
| 9 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge -'Kubla Khan'; -'Dejection: an Ode' | |
| 10 | Percy Bysshe Shelley- - 'Ode to the Westwind' ; -' Ozymandias' | |
| 11 | John Keats- -'Ode to a Nightingale' -'Ode on a Grecian Urn' | |
| 12 | Alfred Tennyson-'Ulysses'; -'The Lotus Eaters'; -'Tithonus' | |
| 13 | Robert Browning-'The Last Ride Together' | |
| 14 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning-' How do I love thee!' | |
| SECTION-C | ||
| 15 | Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice | |
| 16 | Charles Dickens-Great Expectations | |
| 17 | Thomas Hardy-The Mayor of Caster bridge | |
| 18 | Mark Twain-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
| 19 | Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights | |
| 20 | Mary Shelley - Frankenstein | |
| Paper 2 | ||
| SECTION-A | ||
| 1 | Critical analysis/response to an unseen passage in prose/verse | 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-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' | |
The standard of English Optional subjects will be approximately that of an Honours Degree Examination as prescribed by the recognized Indian Universities
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