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UPSC Mains Exam Syllabus - English Literature Optional
UPSC Mains Exam Syllabus - English Optional
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 I : 1600-1900 and Paper II : 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-I
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
1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.
2. John Donne. The following 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. The following 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
- Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels.
- Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.
- Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss.
- Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
- Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
IAS Mains General Studies Study Kit
PAPER-II
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
1. William Butler Yeats. The following 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. The following poems :
- The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
- Journey of the Magi.
- Burnt Norton.
3. W.H. Auden. The following 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. The following poems :
- Next
- Please
- Deceptions
- Afternoons
- Days
- Mr. Bleaney
7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems
- Looking for a Causim on a Swing
- A River
- Of Mothers, among other Things
- Love Poem for a Wife 1
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House
- Obituary
Note: (All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
Section-B
- Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim
- James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
- D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.
- E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.
- Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway.
- Raja Rao. Kanthapura.
- V.S. Naipal. A House for Mr. Biswas.
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