Odisha Public Service Commission Syllabus for Mains

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The Odisha Public Service Commission is the state agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various civil services of Odisha. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for Odisha Civil Services Main Exam Paper English.

Odisha Civil Services Examination Syllabus

OPSC Optional Paper - English

Paper-I

Group A

1. Shakespeare King Lear OR The Tempest
2. Marlowe Dr Faustus
3. John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
4. John Donne

“The Good Morrow”, “Canonization”, “Extasie”, “A Valediction : Forbidding

Mourning”, “The Sunne Rising”, “Death, Be Not Proud”,

5. John Milton Paradise Lost Bks I, II
6. Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock
7. William Wordsworth

“Daffodils”, “Tintern Abbey”, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”, “Three Years She Grew”, “She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways”, “Upon Westminster Bridge”.

Group B

8. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
9. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
10. Charles Dickens Hard Times
11. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
12. George Eliot The Mill on the Floss.

Paper II

Group-A

1. W.B.Yeats

“Easter 1916”, “The Second Coming”, “A Prayer for My Daughter”, “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Among School Children”, “Leda and the Swan”, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

2. T .S.Eliot The Waste Land OR Four Quartets
3. Indian Poets

Kamala Das : “My Grand Mother’s House”, “The Looking Glass”

Nissim Ezekiel : “Enterprise”, “Night of the Scorpion”

Jayanta Mahapatra : “The Whore House in a Calcutta Street”, “Lost”

R.Parthasarathy : “from Trial”, “from Home Coming”

A K Ramanujam : “Love Poem for a Wife I”, “A River”

4 John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

5 Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

6 Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House

7 August Strindberg : Father

Group-B

8 James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

9 E M Forster : A Passage to India

10 Gopinath Mohanty : The Ancestor (translation Arun K Mohanty. Published by Central Sahitya Akademi)

11 Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

12 V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas

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