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
- W. B. Yeats-'Easter 1916';
-'Sailing to Byzantium';
-'Leda and the Swan'
- T. S. Eliot-
-'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock';
-'The Journey of the Magi';
-'Burnt Norton'
- W.H. Auden-
-'In Memory ofW.B.Yeats';
-'Lay your sleeping head, my love';
-'The Shield of Achilles'
- John Osborne-Look Back in Anger
- Samuel Beckett-Waiting for Godot 6. Sylvia Plath -
-'Mirror';
- 'Nick and the Candlestick'
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio-'To India My Native Land';
-'My Country'
- 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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