Kerala PSC HSST 2026 Quiz Series

MODULE 1 – FROM EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 18TH CENTURY

John Donne – Batter My Heart
John Donne – Canonization
John Milton – Lycidas
Paradise Lost – Book 9
Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock
Robert Burns – A Red, Red Rose
Jonathan Swift -The Battle of the Books
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
Hamlet
Sonnet No.18
Sonnet No. 30
Sonnet No. 116
Of Truth
Of Marriage and Single Life
Francis Bacon – Of Studies
Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
John Dryden – Mac Flecknoe

MODULE 2 – NON DETAILED STUDY

Beowulf
Ballads- Sir Patrick Spence and Chevy Chase
Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal
Sir Thomas More – Utopia
Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
Samuel Richardson – Pamela
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

MODULE 3 – THE ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIOD

William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan
John Keats-Ode on a Nightingale
P.B. Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon
Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
Lord Tennyson – Lotos -Eaters
Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy
Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach
Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto
G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty
Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Charles Lamb – Oxford in Vacation
Charles Lamb – Dream Children
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest

MODULE 4 – NON DETAILED STUDY

William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Olaudah Equiano – The Interesting Narrative (Chapters 4 and 5)
P.B. Shelley – The Cenci
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

MODULE 5 – TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE FOR DETAILED STUDY

W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming
W.B.Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland
W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas – Poem in October
Sylvia Plath – Daddy
Philip Larking – Church Going
Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway
Ted Hughes – Thought Fox
Thom Gunn – On the Move
G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent

MODULE 6 – NON DETAILED STUDY

MODULE 7 – FOR DETAILED STUDY

Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali
Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of Waiting
Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel Fishers
Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House
Nissim Ezekiel – Background Casually
A.K. Ramanujan – A River
A.K. Ramanujan – The Striders
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest
Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man
S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory of Rasa
Kunjunni Raja – Theory of Dhwani

MODULE 8 – NON DETAILED STUDY

Vijay Tendulkar – The Court is in Session
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable
Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope
Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day
R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
A.K. Ramanujan – Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay

MODULE 8 – NON DETAILED STUDY

MODULE 9 – AMERICAN LITERATURE

MODULE 10

Emerson- Self Reliance
Thoreau- Civil Disobedience
Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
E.E. Cummings- Buffalo Bill’s
Allan Ginsberg- America
Gertrude Stein- Daughter
Hawthorne- The Scarlett Letter
Herman Melville- Moby Dick
Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye

MODULE 11

MODULE 12

MODULE 13

Aristotle – Poetics
Philip Sydney – An Apologie for Poetry
Samuel Coleridge – Biographia Literaria (Chapter 14)
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own.
T. S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
Northrop Frye – Archetypes of Literature
Cleanth Brookes- The Language of Paradox
Edmund Wilson –“Marxism and Literature”
Elaine Showalter – “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.
Jacques Derrida- “Difference”.
Karl Marx- “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof”
Sigmund Freud
Jurgen Habermas– “Modernity- An Incomplete Project”
Raymond Williams– “Tradition, Institution, Formations”
Stephen Greenblatt – “Shakespeare and the Exorcists”
Michel Foucault – “Two Lectures” from Power/Knowledge, “The Unities of Discourse” from the Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language
Edward W. Said – “Introduction to Orientalism”.
Helen Cixous – “The Laugh of the Medusa”
Eve Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet

MODULE 14

CONSTITUTION

RENAISSANCE

GK & CURRENT AFFAIRS

RESEARCH APTITUDE

TEACHING APTITUDE

MODEL TEST

Model Test 1
Model Test 2
Model Test 3
Model Test 4
HSST MODEL TEST – 5
HSST MODEL TEST – 6
Model Test 7
Model Test 8
Model Test 9
Model Test 10

Course Content

MODULE 1 – FROM EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 18TH CENTURY

John Donne – Batter My Heart

John Donne – Canonization

John Milton – Lycidas

Paradise Lost – Book 9

Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock

Robert Burns – A Red, Red Rose

Jonathan Swift -The Battle of the Books

William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus

Hamlet

Sonnet No.18

Sonnet No. 30

Sonnet No. 116

Of Truth

Of Marriage and Single Life

Francis Bacon – Of Studies

Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Dryden – Mac Flecknoe

MODULE 2 – NON DETAILED STUDY

Beowulf

Ballads- Sir Patrick Spence and Chevy Chase

Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy

Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion

Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress

Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal

Sir Thomas More – Utopia

Henry Fielding – Tom Jones

Samuel Richardson – Pamela

Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

MODULE 3 – THE ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIOD

William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan

John Keats-Ode on a Nightingale

P.B. Shelley – Ode to the West Wind

Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon

Lord Tennyson – Ulysses

Lord Tennyson – Lotos -Eaters

Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy

Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach

Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto

G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty

Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

Charles Lamb – Oxford in Vacation

Charles Lamb – Dream Children

Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest

MODULE 4 – NON DETAILED STUDY

William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Olaudah Equiano – The Interesting Narrative (Chapters 4 and 5)

P.B. Shelley – The Cenci

Mary Shelley – Frankenstein

Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights

Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist

Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Jane Austen – Mansfield Park

Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

MODULE 5 – TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE FOR DETAILED STUDY

W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming

W.B.Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium

T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland

W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats

Dylan Thomas – Poem in October

Sylvia Plath – Daddy

Philip Larking – Church Going

Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway

Ted Hughes – Thought Fox

Thom Gunn – On the Move

G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion

T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral

J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World

Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot

Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party

T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent

MODULE 6 – NON DETAILED STUDY

F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition

Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness

Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway

James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man