UPSC Optional – English Lit. Syllabus PDF
PDF OF BOOKS:
| Introduction to English Literature by W. H Hudson | Download PDF |
| The Routledge History of Literature in English | Download PDF |
| King Lear – Shakespeare | Download PDF |
| Mrs Dollaway – Virginia Woolf | Download PDF |
| A Passage To India – EM Forster | Download PDF |
| Portrait of the artist as a young man – James Joyce | Download PDF |
PAPER I
NOTE:: Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements : The History Of English Literature, The Renaissance; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neo-classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
Section A
1. William Shakespeare: King Lear and The Tempest.
2. John Donne poems :
Canonization;
Death be not proud;
The Good Morrow;
On his Mistress going to bed;
The Relic;
3. John Milton: Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX.
4. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock.
5. William Wordsworth poems :
Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
Tintern Abbey.
Three years she grew.
She dwelt among untrodden ways.
Michael.
Resolution and Independence.
The World is too much with us.
Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour.
Upon Westminster Bridge.
6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam.
7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House.
Section B
1. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels.
2. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice.
3. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones.
4. Charles Dickens: Hard Times.
5. George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
6. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
7. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
PAPER II
NOTE:: Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements : Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post-Modernism.
Section A
1. William Butler Yeats poems :
Easter 1916.; The Second Coming.
A Prayer for my daughter.
Sailing to Byzantium.; The Tower.; Among School Children.
Leda and the Swan; Meru.; Lapis Lazuli.
The Second Coming.; Byzantium.
2. T.S. Eliot poems :
Journey of the Magi.
Burnt Norton.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
3. W.H. Auden poems :
Partition
Musee des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Lay your sleeping head, my love
The Unknown Citizen
Consider; Mundus Et Infans
The Shield of Achilles
September 1, 1939
Petition
4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger.
5. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot.
6. Philip Larkin poems :
Next;
Please;
Deceptions; Afternoons; Days; Mr. Bleaney
7. A.K. Ramanujan poems :
Looking for a Cousin on a Swing
A River
Of Mothers, among other Things
Love Poem for a Wife 1
Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House
Obituary
Section B
1. Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim.
2. James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
3. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers.
4. E.M. Forster: A Passage to India.
5. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway.
6. Raja Rao: Kanthapura.
7. V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas.