SLST English Syllabus
WBCSSC SLST English Syllabus (IX-X)
Poetry
1.William Wordsworth : (A) Lucy Poems; (B) The world is too much with us
2.P.B. Shelley : (A) Ode to the West Wind; (B) To a Skylark
3.John Keats : (A) Ode to a Nightingale; (B) The Autumn
4.Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
5.Robert Browning : The Last Ride Together
5.Thomas Hardy : The Darkling Thrush
6.W.B. Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
7.Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
8.Walter de la Mare : The Listeners
Drama
1.Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
2.George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man
3.John. Galworthy : Justice
Short Story
1.Joseph Conard : Lagoon
2.Somerest Maughan : The Lotos Eater
3.Henry : The Gift of the Magi
4.E. Bates : The Ox
Essay
1.Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie
2.L.A. Hill : Principles of Good Writing
Grammar and Usage
1.Common Errors
2.Number, Gender, Tense, Voice, Mood
3.Agreement of Verbs, Use of Articles and Prepositions
4.Sentence Forms
5.Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
6.Joining and Splitting of Sentences
7.Narration
8.Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
9.Composition
WBCSSC SLST English Syllabus (XI-XII)
Poetry
1.Sidney : Loving in Truth
2.Spenser : One day I wrote her name
3.Shakespeare : Shall I compare thee….
4.John Donne : The Good Marrow
5.George Herbert : Virtue
6.Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock (Cantos I & II)
7.Blake : (A)The Tyger; (B)The Lamb
8.William Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey
9.Samuel Taylor Coleridge : (A)Christabel;(B) Kubla Khan
10.P.B. Shelley :(A) Ode to the West Wind; (B)to a Skylark
11.John Keats : (A) Ode to a Nightingale; (B)To Autumn
12.Alfred Tennyson : Ulysses
13.Robert Browing : My last Duchess
14.W.B. Yeats : The Wild Swans at Coole
15.Wilfred Owen : Strange Meeting
16.T.S. Eliot : Hollow Men
Drama
1.Shakespeare : Macbeth
2.Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
3.George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man
4.M. Synge : Riders To the sea
Novel
1.Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
2.Charles Dickens : David Copperfield
Short Story and Essay
Short Story
1.Joseph Conard : The Lagoon
2.James Joyce : Araby
3.Somerset Maugham : The Lotos Eater
4.Katherine Mansfield : The Fly
Essay
1.Charles Lamb : Dream Children: A Reverie;
2.The Superannuated Man
3.G.B. Shaw : Freedom
4.Francis Bacon : of Studies
Grammar and Usage
1.Common Errors
2.Subject Verb Agreement; Tenses; Active and Passive Voice, Articles, Prepositions,
3.Adverbs, Adjective
4.Sentence Forms
5.Simple Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
6.Joining and Splitting of Sentences
7.Narration
8.Direct and Indirect
9.Composition
Literary Devices:
1.Rhetoric and Prosody.