PG TRB English New Syllabus 2025
Unit I ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1400-1600
Poetry
Prose
Sir Philip Sydney An Apologie for Poetrie
The Bible The Book of Job
Drama
Unit II ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1601-1798
Poetry
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
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Drama
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, 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
Robe rt 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
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 & 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
Parts of Speech, Homophones, Articles and Determiners, Identifying Sentence
Patterns, Compound Words, Figures of Speech, Identifying and Correcting
Errors, British and American English
