West Bengal Central School Service Commission English Syllabus ( Hons/ PG) 

POETRY:- 

1) Loving in Truth : Philip Sidney

2) Oneday I Wrote Her Name :  Edmund Spencer

3) Shall I Compare Thee :  William Shakespeare 

4) The Good Morrow : John Donne

5) Virtue : George Herbert

6) The Rape of the Lock ( Cantos I&II)  : Alexander Pope

7) The Tyger, The Lamb : William Blake

8) Tintern Abbey : William Wordsworth 

9) Christabel,  Kubla Khan : S.T. Coleridge

10) Ode to a Nightingale,  Ode to Autumn : John Keats 

11) Ulysses : Alfred Tennyson 

12) My Last Duchess : Robert Browning 

13) The Wild Swans at Coole : W.B. Yeats

14) Strange Meeting : Wilfred Owen 

15) Hollow Men : T.S. Eliot 

DRAMA

1) Macbeth : William Shakespeare 

2) She Stoops to Conquer : Goldsmith 

3) Arms and the Man : G.B. Shaw

4) Riders to the Sea : J.M. Synge 

NOVEL

1) Pride and Prejudice : Jane Austen 

2) David Copperfield : Charles Dickens

SHORT STORY

1) The Lagoon : Joseph Conrad 

2) Araby : James Joyce 

3) The Lotus Eater : Somerset Maugham

4) The Fly : Katherine Mansfield

ESSAY 

1) Dream Children: A Reverie, The Superannuated Man : Charles Lamb

2) Freedom : G.B. Shaw

3) Francis Bacon : Of Studies

Grammar and Usage

1) Common Errors

2) Subject Verb Agreement,  Tenses, Active and Passive Voice,  Articles, Prepositions, Adverbs, Adjectives

3) Sentence Forms:  Simple, Compound, Complex, Joining and Spliting of Sentences

4) Narration: Direct and Indirect

5) Composition

6) A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic.

7) Literary devices 

8) Rhetoric and Prosody

This is the Old Syllabus for WBCSSC English.  New Syllabus will be published after Commission's announcement.