PGTRB English Syllabus 2025
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Unit I: English Literature from 1400β1600
Poetry
- Geoffrey Chaucer β Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, The Book of the Duchess (Chapter only)
- Edmund Spenser β Prothalamion, Epithalamion
- Sir Thomas Wyatt β Remembrance
Prose
- Francis Bacon β Essays: Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Ambition
- Sir Philip Sidney β An Apologie for Poetrie
- The Bible β The Book of Job
Drama
- Christopher Marlowe β Dr. Faustus
- Thomas Kyd β The Spanish Tragedy
- Ben Jonson β Every Man in His Humour
Unit II: English Literature from 1601β1798
Poetry
- John Milton β Paradise Lost, Book IX
- Andrew Marvell β To His Coy Mistress
- John Donne β The Canonization
- Alexander Pope β The Rape of the Lock
- John Dryden β Absalom and Achitophel
- Thomas Gray β Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Prose and Fiction
- Samuel Johnson β Life of Milton
- Jonathan Swift β Gulliverβs Travels
- John Bunyan β The Pilgrimβs Progress
- Daniel Defoe β Robinson Crusoe
Drama
- John Dryden β All for Love
- Richard B. Sheridan β The School for Scandal
- William Congreve β The Way of the World
- Oliver Goldsmith β She Stoops to Conquer
Unit III: English Literature from 1798β1850
Poetry
- William Wordsworth β Immortality, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude (Book I)
- Samuel Coleridge β Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan
- John Keats β Ode to a Nightingale
- Percy Bysshe Shelley β Ozymandias, Adonais
Prose and Fiction
- Charles Lamb β Essays of Elia: Christβs Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream Children, New Yearβs Eve
- William Hazlitt β My First Acquaintance with Poets
- William Wordsworth β Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Jane Austen β Sense and Sensibility
- Emily BrontΓ« β Wuthering Heights
Lyrical Drama
- Percy Bysshe Shelley β Prometheus Unbound
Unit IV: Literature from 1851 to the Present Day
Poetry
- Matthew Arnold β Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
- Robert Browning β Andrea Del Sarto
- Alfred Lord Tennyson β Ulysses
- W.B. Yeats β Byzantium
- T.S. Eliot β The Waste Land
- G.M. Hopkins β Godβs Grandeur
- W.H. Auden β The Unknown Citizen
- Ted Hughes β The Thought Fox
Prose and Fiction
- Thomas Carlyle β On Heroes, Hero-Worship (Lecture III: Shakespeare)
- Matthew Arnold β The Study of Poetry
- George Orwell β You and the Atom Bomb
- Charles Dickens β Hard Times
- George Eliot β The Mill on the Floss
- Thomas Hardy β Mayor of Casterbridge
- Virginia Woolf β Mrs. Dalloway
Drama
- John Osborne β Look Back in Anger
- Bertolt Brecht β Mother Courage and Her Children
- J.M. Synge β Riders to the Sea
- Caryl Churchill β 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 β Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Anne Bradstreet β Prologue
- R.W. Emerson β Brahma
- Robert Frost β Birches, Mending Wall
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar β The Sparrow
- Maya Angelou β I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- E.E. Cummings β The Cambridge Ladies
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman β The Anti-Suffragists
Prose and Fiction
- H.D. Thoreau β Where I Lived and What I Lived For
- R.W. Emerson β The American Scholar
- William Faulkner β Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- Toni Morrison β Beloved
- Jhumpa Lahiri β The Namesake
Drama
- Arthur Miller β The Death of a Salesman
- Eugene OβNeill β Emperor Jones
- Tennessee Williams β A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit VII(A): Indian Writing in English
Poetry
- Rabindranath Tagore β Gitanjali
- Nissim Ezekiel β Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa
- Toru Dutt β Our Casuarina Tree
- Kamala Das β An Introduction
- Sujata Bhatt β A Different History
Prose and Fiction
- Jawaharlal Nehru β An Autobiography
- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar β Annihilation of Caste
- Mulk Raj Anand β Coolie
- Kamala Markandeya β A Handful of Rice
- Arundhati Roy β The God of Small Things
Drama
- Girish Karnad β Hayavadana
- Vijay Tendulkar β Silence! The Court is in Session
- Mahasweta Devi β Rudali
- Mahesh Dattani β Dance Like a Man
Unit VII(B): Commonwealth Literature
Poetry
- Kath Walker β A Song of Hope
- Banjo Paterson β Waltzing Mathilda
- Wole Soyinka β The Telephone Conversation
- E.J. Pratt β The Dying Eagle
- Judith Wright β At Cooloolah
- Abioseh Nicol β The Meaning of Africa
- A.D. Hope β Australia
Prose and Fiction
- Thomas King β Godzilla vs Post-Colonial
- Chinua Achebe β Things Fall Apart
- Alan Paton β Cry, the Beloved Country
- Patrick White β Voss
Drama
- Wole Soyinka β The Lion and the Jewel
- George Ryga β The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
- Jane Harrison β Stolen
Unit VIII: Literary Criticism
- Aristotle β Poetics
- Dryden β Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- Coleridge β Biographia Literaria (Ch. XIV & XVII)
- T.S. Eliot β The Metaphysical Poets
- I.A. Richards β Four Kinds of Meaning
- William Empson β The Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Northrop Frye β The Archetypes of Literature
- Cleanth Brooks β Irony as a Principle of Structure
- Allen Tate β Tension in Poetry
- Elaine Showalter β Towards a Feminist Poetics
- Simone de Beauvoir β The Second Sex
Unit IX: Language, Linguistics, and Pedagogy
Language History
- History of English Language and its Growth
- IndoβEuropean 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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