West Bengal Public Service Commission Syllabus for Mains 2021

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The Public Service Commission, West Bengal or PSCWB is the state agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various Civil Services of state of West Bengal in India. Here is a Detailed Syllabus for WBPSC Mains Optional Paper - English.

West Bengal PSC Syllabus

WBPSC Optional Paper - English

Paper - I:

SECTION-A   : An essay on a literary topic

SECTION-B

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

SECTION-C

  • Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
  • Charles Dickens-Great Expectations
  • Thomas Hardy-The Mayor of Caster bridge
  • Mark Twain-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Emily Bronte-Wuthering Heights
  • Mary Shelley-Frankenstein

Paper – II :

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'

  1. T. S. Eliot-

-'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock';      

-'The Journey of the Magi';      

-'Burnt Norton'

  1. W.H. Auden-

-'In Memory ofW.B.Yeats';     

 -'Lay your sleeping head, my love';     

 -'The Shield of Achilles'

  1. John Osborne-Look Back in Anger
  2. Samuel Beckett-Waiting for Godot 6. Sylvia Plath -

-'Mirror';      

- 'Nick and the Candlestick'

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

-'My Country'

  1. Kamala Das

-' An Introduction'

SECTION-C

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

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