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Optional English Literature Course for UPSC + Essay Writing
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of English Literature for candidates opting for it as their optional subject in the UPSC Civil Services Examination. It aims to equip candidates with in-depth knowledge of literary works, critical perspectives, and analytical skills necessary to excel in the examination
- Detailed coverage of UPSC syllabus for English Literature optional (Full Syllabus)
- Notes/PDFs Available on OSN Academy App
- Course Validity – 1 Year
- Taught by Dr. Anurag Agarwal – NET, Ph.D. MBA | 20+ Years Experience
- Offline Videos Download Option
- Compatible with MOBILE (iOS & Android), TABLET, DESKTOP & LAPTOP
- One-to-One Interaction and Doubt Clearance by Professor
- Career Guidance
- Master the exam and secure the top spot on the topper list with the highest percentile.
- Answer Writing & Test Series
Optional English Literature books / Study Material
- Based on the latest syllabus
- Hard Copies of Complete Study Material Books
- Dispatched via postal service within 4-5 business days
- Study Material is Enriched with Ex-Govt Professors with vast experience of teaching
Optional English Literature Syllabus (Paper-1 & Paper 2)
English Literature Optional (Mains) – PAPER – I
Section-A
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.
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:
- Odeon 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
Section-A
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.
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
- – The 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 (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
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the English Literature Optional & Answer Writing Program.
Yes. The program starts from fundamentals and gradually moves to advanced answer writing.
Yes. Detailed feedback is provided for improvement and answer structuring.
Yes. Recordings are available for revision and flexible learning.
Yes. Personalized strategy and mentorship sessions are included throughout the program.
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