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Official UPSC Optional English Paper 1 And 2 Syllabus
The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a first-hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Literature : Paper 1 : 1600-1900 and Paper 2 : 1900–1990.
There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : (a) A short-notes question related to the topics for general study, and (b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
PAPER-1
(Answers must be written in English)
Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :
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
| Poets | Poems |
|---|---|
| William Shakespeare | King Lear and The Tempest |
| John Donne. The following poems | Death be not proudCanonizationThe Good MorrowThe RelicOn his Mistress going to bed |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX |
| Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock |
| William Wordsworth: The following poems: | Tintern AbbeyOdeon Intimations of Immortality.Three years she grewMichaelShe dwelt among untrodden waysIndependence and ResolutionThe World is too much with usUpon Westminster BridgeMilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour |
| Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll’s House |
Section B
| Novelists | Novels |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver’s Travels. |
| Jane Austen | Prejudice and Pride |
| Charles Dickens | Hard Times |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d’Urbervilles |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
PAPER-2
(Answers must be written in English)
Texts for detailed study are listed below. 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
| Poets | Poems |
|---|---|
| William Butler Yeats: | Easter 1916A Prayer for my daughterThe Second ComingSailing to ByzantiumAmong School ChildrenThe TowerMeruLeda and the SwanLapis Lazuli |
| T.S. Eliot: | Journey of the MagiLove Song of J.Alfred PrufrockBurnt Norton |
| W.H. Auden: | Musee des Beaux-ArtsPartitionin Memory of W.B. YeatsThe Unknown CitizenLay your sleeping head, my loveMundus Et InfansConsiderSeptember 1, 1939The Shield of AchillesPetition |
| John Osborne | Look Back in Anger |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Philip Larkin: | NextPleaseDeceptionsAfternoonsDaysMr. Bleaney |
| A.K. Ramanujan: | A RiverLooking for a Causim on a SwingLove Poem for a Wife 1Of Mothers, among other ThingsSmall-Scale Reflections on a Great HouseObituary |
Section B
| Novelist | Novels |
|---|---|
| James Joyce | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| D.H. Lawrence | Lovers and Sons |
| E.M. Forster | A Passage to India |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway |
| Raja Rao | Kanthapura |
| V.S. Naipaul | A House for Mr Biswas |
| Author | UPSC |
| Language | English |
| No. of Pages | 4 |
| PDF Size | 1 MB |
| Category | UPSC Syllabus |
| Source/Credits | static.prepp.in |
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