18/09/2025
বিসিএস প্রিলিমিনারি পরীক্ষায় ইংরেজি ৩৫ মার্কস এর ভিতর ইংরেজি সাহিত্য থেকে ১২-১৬টি প্রশ্ন থাকে। ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের স্টুডেন্ট ছাড়া অন্যান্য সবার জন্য এইগুলো কিছুটা জটিল মনে হয়। আগামীকাল ১৯ সেপ্টেম্বর ৪৭তম প্রিলি. চূড়ান্ত পরীক্ষার আগে আপনারা চাইলে নিচের সাহিত্য কর্মগুলো একবার পড়ে যেতে পারেন।
সংক্ষিপ্তের সংক্ষিপ্ত এই তথ্যগুলো থেকে পরীক্ষায় কতগুলো কমন আসবে সেটা জানিনা, তবে আশাকরি একাদিক প্রশ্ন কমন আসতে পারে। ইনশাআল্লাহ। তাই, বিশ্বাস রেখে অন্তত দুইবার পড়ুন।
✅ W. Shakespeare: Shall I Compare Thee? (Poem)
✅ John Donne: Good Morrow
✅ W.Wordsworth: I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud-Also known as Daffodils (Poem)
✅ P.B.Shelley: Ozymandias (Poem)
✅ J.Keats: To Autumn (Poem)
✅ Elizabeth B.Browning: How Do I Love Thee? (Poem)
✅ Emily Dickinson: Because I Could not Stop for Death (Poem)
✅ W.B. Yeats: No Second Troy (Poem)
✅ R.Frost: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (Poem)
✅ D.H. Lawrence: Snake (Poem)
✅ Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill (Poem)
✅ Ted Hughes: Pike (Poem)
✅ Adrienne Rich: Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (Poem)
✅ Kaiser Huq: Ode on a Lungi (Poem)
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✅ Francis Bacon: Of Studies
✅ A.Lincon: Gettysburg Address
✅ R.Tagore: Letter to Lord Chelmford Rejecting Knighthood
✅ G.Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
✅ N.C.Choudhury: River & Rain
✅ Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream
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✅ S.Maugham: The Ant and the Grasshopper
✅ James Joyce: Araby
✅ K.Mansfield: The Garden Party
✅ Anita Desai: Games at Twilight
✅ Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart
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✅ Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
✅ W. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
✅ G. B. Shaw: Arms and the Man
✅ J.M. Synge: Riders to the Sea
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✅ W.Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience, Chimney Sweeper, The Nurse’s Song, Holy Thursday, Divine Image, The Lamb, Earth’s Answer, London
✅ W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Immortality Ode, Michael
✅ S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
✅ Lord Byron: Don Juan Canto 1
✅ Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
✅ John Keats: Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, On His First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
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✅ C. Marlowe: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
✅ W.Shakespeare: Macbeth, As You Like It
✅ Ben Jonson: Volpone
✅ John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
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✅ Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queen
✅ John Donne: The Sun Rising, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Twicknam Garden, The Canonization, Go and Catch a Falling Star, Batter My Heart, Death Be Not Proud
✅ Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love
✅ George Herbert: Easter Wings, The Collar
✅ John Milton: Paradise Lost
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✅ F.Bacon: Of Love, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth, Of Plantation
✅ John Milton: Areopagitica
✅ Addison and Steele: The Spectators
✅ Samuel Johnson: Life of Cowley
✅ Edmund Burke: Speech on East India Bill
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✅ Aphra Ben: Oroonoko
✅ Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
✅ Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
✅ Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
✅ Samuel Johnson: Rasselas
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✅ John.Dryden: Mac Flecknoe
✅ William Congreve: The Way of the World
✅ Alexander Pope: The R**e of the Lock
✅ Thomas Gray: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard
✅ Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
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✅ A.Tennyson (Victorian Poet): Locksley Hall, Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters
✅ R.Browning (Victorian Poet): A Grammarian's Funeral, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi
✅ Mathew Arnold (Victorian Poet): Thyrsis, Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
✅ Christiana Rossetti (Victorian Poet): Goblin Market, An Apple Gathering
✅ Gerald Manley Hopkins (Victorian Poet): The Windhover, Felix Randal, Spring and Fall, Pied Beauty
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✅ Jane Austin: Pride and Prejudice
✅ Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
✅ Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
✅ Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D' Urbervilles
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✅ WB Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Easter 1916, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
✅ TS Eliot: The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land
✅ Dylan Thomas: Poem in October, Morning Song, Words, The Rival, Crossing the Water
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✅ Oscar Wilde: Importance of Being Earnest (Modern Drama)
✅ Samuel Becket: Waiting for Godot (Modern Drama)
✅ Harold Pinter: The Caretaker (Modern Drama)
✅ Osborne: Look Back in Anger (Modern Drama)
✅ G.B. Shaw: You Never Can Tell (Modern Drama)
✅ Eugene O’ Neil: Desire Under the Elms (Modern Drama)
✅ A. Miller: Death of a Salesman (Modern Drama)
✅ Tennessee William: The Glass Menagerie (Modern Drama)
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✅ J. Conrad: Heart of Darkness (Novel)
✅ EM Foster: A Passage to India (Novel)
✅ V. Wolf: To the Light House (Novel)
✅ DH Lawrence: Sons and Lovers (Novel)
✅ Doris Lessing: Grass is Singing (Novel)
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✅ Emily Dickinson (American Poet): Wild Nights Wild Nights, I Felt a Funeral in My Brain, I Taste a Liquor
✅ W. Whitman (American Poet): When Lilacs Last at My Dooryard Bloomed, O Captain, My Captain
✅ R. Frost (American Poet): After Apple Picking, The Birches, Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man, Road Not Taken, Acquainted with the Night, Tree at My Window
✅ Langston Hughes (American Poet): The Negro Speaks of Rivers, I too Speak of America, Weary Blues, Harlem
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✅ N. Hawthorne (Amrican Novelist): Young Good Man Brown
✅ E. O' Neil (American dramatist): Hairy Ape
✅ E. Hemingway (Amrican Novelist): The Sun Also Rises
✅ S. Bellow (Amrican Novelist): Seize the Day
✅ Tony Morrison (Amrican Novelist): Beloved
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✅ E. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (Modern novel)
✅ W. Golding: Lord of the Flies (Modern novel)
✅ N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (Modern novel)
✅ Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (Modern novel)
✅ J. Paul Sartre: Nausea (Modern novel)
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✅ Homer: Iliad
✅ Aeschylus: Agamemnon
✅ Euripides: Medea
✅ Aristophanes: The Frogs
✅ Seneca: Hyppolytus
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✅ Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
✅ T.S. Eliot: The Metaphysical Poets
✅ Edward Said: Introduction to Culture and Imperialism
✅ Terry Eagleton: The Rise of English
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✅ F. Kafka: Metamorphosis
✅ A. Camus: The Outsider
✅ Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
✅ H. Ibsen: A Doll's House
✅ F. Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
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✅ Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, Troilus and Cresyde
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✅ Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Waste Land
✅ Wystan Hugh Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, The Shield of Achilles
✅ Philip Larkin: Church Going, Aubade
✅ Ted Hughes: The Jaguar, Relic, Wind
✅ Seamus Heaney: Digging, Blackberry-Picking, Punishment
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✅ Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night (20th Century Drama)
✅ Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (20th Century Drama)
✅ Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (20th Century Drama)
✅ Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun (20th Century Drama)
✅ Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (20th Century Drama)
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✅ James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Novel)
✅ William Golding: Lord of the Flies (Novel)
✅ V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas (Novel)
✅ Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (Novel)
✅ Nadine Gordimer: July's People (Novel)
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✅ William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Tempest, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar
✅ W. Whitman: Song of Myself (Poem)
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✅ W. Emerson: The American Scholar
✅ H. D. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
✅ Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare’s Sister
✅ T.S. Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
✅ F.R. Leavis: Literature and Society
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✅ S. Waliullah (Bangladeshi): Tree Without Roots
✅ Arundhati Roy (Indian): The God of Small Things
✅ Chinua Achebe (African/Nigerian): Things Fall Apart
✅ Ngugi wa Thiong`o (African/Kenyan): Petals of Blood
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