WBSSC SLST English Syllabus 2025–26 (Class 11–12) | Complete Topic-Wise List

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📘 WBCSSC SLST English Syllabus (XI–XII)

Poetry

• Sidney: Loving in Truth

• Spenser: One day I wrote her name

• Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee…

• John Donne: The Good Morrow

• George Herbert: Virtue

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

• Blake: The Tyger; The Lamb

• William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christabel; Kubla Khan

• P. B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind; To a Skylark

• John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale; To Autumn

• Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

• Robert Browning: My Last Duchess

• W. B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

• Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting

• T. S. Eliot: Hollow Men 

Drama

• Shakespeare: Macbeth

• Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

• George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man

• M. Synge: Riders to the Sea 

Novel

• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

• Charles Dickens: David Copperfield 

Short Story

• Joseph Conrad: The Lagoon

• James Joyce: Araby

• Somerset Maugham: The Lotos Eater

• Katherine Mansfield: The Fly 

Essay

• Charles Lamb: Dream Children: A Reverie

• The Superannuated Man

• G. B. Shaw: Freedom

• Francis Bacon: Of Studies 

Grammar and Usage

• Common Errors

• Subject-Verb Agreement

• Tenses

• Active and Passive Voice

• Articles, Prepositions

• Adverbs, Adjective

• Sentence Forms — Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses

• Joining and Splitting of Sentences

• Narration — Direct and Indirect

• Composition

• Literary Devices: Rhetoric and Prosody 

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