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PG TRB 2025 ENGLISH
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Unit I - ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1400-1600
Poetry
- Geoffrey Chaucer - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (The Book of the Duchess Chapter only)
- Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion and Epithalamion
- Sir Thomas Wyatt - Remembrance
Prose
- Bacon - Essays Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Adversity,Of Revenge and Of Ambition
- Sir Philip Sydney - An Apologie for Poetrie
- The Bible The Book of Job
Drama
- Christopher Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
- Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour
Unit II - ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1601-1798
Poetry
- John Milton - Paradise Lost, Book – IX
- Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
- John Donne - The Canonization
- Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock
- John Dryden - Absalom and Achitophel
- Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Prose and Fiction
- Samuel Johnson - Life of Milton
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
- John Bunyan The - Pilgrim’s Progress
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Drama
- John Dryden - All for Love
- Richard B. Sheridan - The School for Scandal
- William Congreve - The Way of the World
- Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
Unit III - ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1798-1850
Poetry
- William Wordsworth - Immortality, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude - Book-I
- Samuel Coleridge - Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan
- John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias, Adonais
Prose and Fiction
- Charles Lamb - Essays of Elia, Christ’s Hospital,The South Sea House, Dream Children, New Year’s Eve
- William Hazlitt - My First Acquaintance with Poets
- William Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
- Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Lyrical Drama
- Percy Bysshe Shelley -Prometheus Unbound
Unit IV - LITERATURE FROM 1851 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Poetry
- Mathew Arnold - Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
- Robert Browning - Andrea Del Sarto
- Alfred Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
- W.B. Yeats - Byzantium
- T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
- G.M. Hopkins - God’s Grandeur
- W.H. Auden The Unknown Citizen
- Ted Hughes The Thought Fox
Prose and Fiction
- Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History Lecture III- Shakespeare
- Mathew Arnold - The Study of Poetry
- George Orwell - You and the Atom Bomb
- Charles Dickens - Hard Times
- George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
- Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge
- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Drama
- John Osborne - Look Back in Anger
- Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage and Her Children
- J.M. Synge - Riders to the Sea
- Caryl Churchill - Top Girls
Unit V - PLAYS AND SONNETS BY SHAKESPEARE
Drama
- Othello
- King Lear
- The Tempest
- Measure for Measure
Sonnets
- 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
- 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
- 65 - Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- 104 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old
- 106 - When in the chronicle of wasted time
- 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- 129 - Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- 130 - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Unit VI - AMERICAN LITERATURE
Poetry
- Walt Whitman - Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Anne Bradstreet - Prologue
- R.W. Emerson - Brahma
- Robert Frost - Birches, Mending Wall
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar - The Sparrow
- Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- E.E. Cummings - The Cambridge Ladies
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Anti-Suffragists
Prose and Fiction
- H.D. Thoreau - Where I Lived and What I Lived For
- R.W. Emerson - The American Scholar
- William Faulkner - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- Toni Morrison - Beloved
- Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Drama
- Arthur Miller - The Death of a Salesman
- Eugene O’ Neil - Emperor Jones
- Tennessee Williams - A Street Car Named Desire
Unit VII - (A) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Poetry
- Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali
- Nissim Ezeikel - Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa
- Toru Dutt - Our Casuarina Tree
- Kamala Das - An Introduction
- Sujatha Bhatt - A Different History
Prose and Fiction
- Jawaharlal Nehru - An Autobiography
- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar - Annihilation of Caste
- Mulk Raj Anand - Coolie
- Kamala Markandeya - A Handful of Rice
- Arundathi Roy The God of Small Things
Drama
- Girish Karnad - Hayavadana
- Vijay Tendulkar - Silence! The Court is in Session
- Mahasweta Devi - Rudali
- Mahesh Dattani - Dance like a Man
(B) COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
Poetry
- Kath Walker - A Song of Hope
- Banjo Patterson - Waltzing Mathilda
- Wole Soyinka - The Telephone Conversation
- E.J. Pratt - The Dying Eagle
- Judith Wright - At Cooloolah
- Abioseh Nicol - The Meaning of Africa
- A.D. Hope - Australia
Prose and Fiction
- Thomas King - Godzilla Vs Post-Colonial
- Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Patrick White - Voss
Drama
- Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the Jewel
- George Ryga - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
- Jane Harrison - Stolen
Unit VIII - LITERARY CRITICISM
- Aristotle - Poetics
- Dryden - Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- Coleridge - Biographia Literaria Ch. XIV and Ch XVII
- T. S. Eliot - Metaphysical Poets
- I. A. Richards - Four Kinds of Meaning
- William Empson - The Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Northrop Frye - The Archetypes of Literature
- Cleanth Brooks - Irony as a Principle of Structure
- Allen Tate - Tension in Poetry
- Elaine Showalter - Towards a Feminist Poetics
- Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
Unit IX - LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND PEDAGOGY
History of English Language and its Growth
- Indo – European Family and the Place of English language
- Old, Middle and Modern English
- Growth of Vocabulary from various Foreign Languages, Change in Meaning,
- Influence of The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton and Dr. Johnson
- Characteristics of Modern English
- Spelling Reform and the English Lexicon
Linguistics
- English Phonetics and Phonology (Vowels, Consonants and Diphthongs)
- Morphology, Word formation and its different types
- Semantics
- Dialect and Idiolect
- Grammar – Traditional, Transformational Generative Grammar and Deep Structure
- Applied Linguistics
English Language Teaching (ELT)
- History of ELT
- Second Language Acquisition
- Designing Syllabus
- Materials Production
- Language Testing and Evaluation
UNIT X - APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Phrases
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Prefix and Suffix
- Tenses
- Voice
- Parts of Speech
- Homophones
- Articles and Determiners
- Identifying Sentence Patterns
- Compound Words
- Figures of Speech
- Identifying and Correcting Errors
- British and American English
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