PGTRB English New Updated Syllabus

PGTRB English Syllabus 2025

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PGTRB English Updated Syllabus

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, Epithalamion
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt – Remembrance

Prose

  • Francis Bacon – Essays: Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Ambition
  • Sir Philip Sidney – 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 BrontΓ« – Wuthering Heights

Lyrical Drama

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound

Unit IV: Literature from 1851 to the Present Day

Poetry

  • Matthew 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 (Lecture III: Shakespeare)
  • Matthew 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, 29, 65, 104, 106, 116, 129, 130

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’Neill – Emperor Jones
  • Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire

Unit VII(A): Indian Writing in English

Poetry

  • Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali
  • Nissim Ezekiel – Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa
  • Toru Dutt – Our Casuarina Tree
  • Kamala Das – An Introduction
  • Sujata 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
  • Arundhati 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

Unit VII(B): Commonwealth Literature

Poetry

  • Kath Walker – A Song of Hope
  • Banjo Paterson – 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

  1. Aristotle – Poetics
  2. Dryden – Essay of Dramatic Poesy
  3. Coleridge – Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIV & XVII)
  4. T.S. Eliot – The Metaphysical Poets
  5. I.A. Richards – Four Kinds of Meaning
  6. William Empson – The Seven Types of Ambiguity
  7. Northrop Frye – The Archetypes of Literature
  8. Cleanth Brooks – Irony as a Principle of Structure
  9. Allen Tate – Tension in Poetry
  10. Elaine Showalter – Towards a Feminist Poetics
  11. Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex

Unit IX: Language, Linguistics, and Pedagogy

Language History

  • History of English Language and its Growth
  • Indo–European Family and the Place of English
  • Old, Middle and Modern English
  • Growth of Vocabulary, Semantic Changes
  • Influence of The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson
  • Spelling Reform and the English Lexicon

Linguistics

  • Phonetics and Phonology (Vowels, Consonants, Diphthongs)
  • Morphology and Word Formation
  • Semantics
  • Dialect and Idiolect
  • Grammar: Traditional, Transformational, Generative
  • Deep Structure and Syntax

English Language Teaching (ELT)

  • History of ELT
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Syllabus Designing
  • Materials Production
  • Language Testing and Evaluation

Unit X: Application of Language Skills

  • Phrases, Synonyms, Antonyms
  • Prefixes and Suffixes
  • Tenses, Voice, Parts of Speech
  • Homophones, Articles, and Determiners
  • Sentence Patterns and Compound Words
  • Figures of Speech
  • Error Identification and Correction
  • British and American English

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