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Engineering TRB English Syllabus

Engineering TRB English Syllabus 2026

Unit 1: Chaucer to Shakespeare

Geoffrey Chaucer

: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Edmund Spenser

: Prothalamion

Shakespeare

: Sonnets

(12,18,29,30,33,53,54,60,65,73,90,94,107,116,144)

John Donne

: A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning

Andrew Marvell

: To His Coy Mistress

Francis Bacon

: Of Truth Of Death Of Revenge Of Marriage and Single Life Of Ambition Of Nobility

Christopher Marlowe

: Dr.Faustus

Thomas Middleton

: The Changeling

John Webster

: The Duchess of Malfi

William Shakespeare

: Twelfth Night Henry IV Part I Macbeth The Tempest Antony and Cleopatra

Unit 2 : Jacobean to Augustan Age

John Milton

: Paradise Lost  Book IX

John Dryden

: Mac Flecnoe

Alexander Pope

: An Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot

Thomas Gray

: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Thompson

: Spring Autumn Winter

William Collins

: Ode to Evening

William Blake

: A Poison Tree The Tiger The Lamb

John Dryden

: Preface to the Fables

Jonathan Swift

: The Battle of the Books

Daniel Defoe

: Robinson Crusoe

Addison and Steele

: The Spectator and the Coverly Papers (Essays 1-10 Macmillan Edn.)

Samuel Johnson

: Preface to Shakespeare

William Congreve

: The Way of the World

R.B.Sheridan

: The Rivals

Goldsmith

: She Stoops to Conquer

Henry Fielding

: Tom Jones

Unit 3 : Romantic Period

Wordsworth

: Intimation Ode Tintern Abbey

Coleridge

: Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

P.B.Shelley

: To a Skylark

John Keats

: Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn

Byron

: Vision of Judgement

Charles Lamb

: Essays of Elia

 

1. The South-Sea House

2. Dream Children : A Reverie

3. Christ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago

4. Oxford in the Vacation

5. All FoolsôDay

Wordsworth

: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Walter Scott

: The Heart of Midlothian

Jane Austen

: Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte

: Wuthering Heights

Unit 4 : Romantic Period

Tennyson

: Ulysses The Lotus Eaters

Robert Browning

: My Last Duchess Andrea Del Sarto

Matthew Arnold

: The Scholar Gipsy Dover Beach

D.G.Rossetti

: The Blessed Damozel

G.M.Hopkins

: The Wreck of the Deutschland

Matthew Arnold

: The Study of Poetry

Oscar Wilde

: The Importance of Being Earnest

Charles Dickens

: Great Expectations

Thomas Hardy

: The Woodlanders

Unit 5 : Modern and Contemporary Periods

W.B.Yeats

: Sailing to Byzantium

T.S.Eliot

: The Waste Land

W.H.Auden

: The Unknown Citizen

Philip Larkin

: Church Going

C.B.Lewis

: Fern Hill

T.S.Eliot

: Tradition and the Individual Talent

E.M.Forster

: (Selections from E.M.Forster. Edited by R.Krishnamoorthy & Published by Macmillan).

1.  Notes on the English Character

2.  My Wood

3.  Hymn Before Action

4.  Tolerance

5.  What I Believe

G.B.Shaw

: Arms and the Man

John Osborn

: Look Back in Anger

T.S.Eliot

: Murder in the Cathedral

D.H.Lawrence

: The Rainbow

William Golding

: Lord of the Flies

Joseph Conrad

: Lord Jim

Unit 6 : American Literature

Emerson

: Brahma

Poe

: The Raven

Whitman

: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Emily Dickinson

: Success is Counted Sweetest I Tasted a Liquor Never Brewed Because I Could not Stop for Death A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Robert Frost

: Mending Wall Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Wallace Stevens

: The Emperor of Ice-cream

Emerson

: The American Scholar

Henry James

: The Art of Fiction

ONeill

: The Hairy Ape

Edward Albe

: Who’ş Afraid of Viginia Woolfe

Hawthorne

: The Scarlet Letter

Mark Twain

: Huckleberry Finn

Ernest Hemingway

: The Old Man and the Sea

Faulkner

: The Sound and the Fury

Alice Walker

: Color Purple

Unit 7 : Indian and English Literature

Toru Dutt

: The Lotus Our Casuarina Tree

R.Parthasarathy

: Under Another Sky A River Once

Sarojini Naidu

: Indian Weavers

Kamala Dass

: Introduction My Grandmothers House

Nissim Ezekiel

: Enterprise Night of the Scorpion

A.K.Ramanujan

: Small Scale Reflections on a Great House Obituary

Sri Aurobindho

: The Renaissance in India

Tagore

: Post Office

Girish Kamard

: Tughlaq

R.K.Narayan

: The Guide

Chaman Nahal

: Azadi

Deshpande

: The Dark Holds No Terror

Arundathi Roy

: God of Small Things

Unit 8 : Language and Linguistics

Unit 9 : Criticism and Literary Theories

Aristotle

: Poetics

Dr.Johnson

: Life of Milton

T.S.Eliot

: The Function of Criticism

I.A.Richards

: Four Types of Meaning

Northrop Frye

: The Archetypes of Literature

Lionel Trillin

: The Meaning of a Literary Idea

Rolland Barthes

: The Death of the Author

Wayne Booth

: Telling and Showing

Edward Wilson

: A Historical Interpretation of Literature

Derrida

: Structure, Sign ad Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences

Terry Eagleton

: Capitalism, Modernism and Post Modernism

Elaine Showalter

: Towards a Feminist Poetics

Gayatri Spivak

: Imperialism and Sexual Difference

Unit 10 : Post Colonial Literature and European Literature in Translation

A.G.Smith

: Ode on the Death of William Butler Yeats Like an Old Proud King in a Parable.

Margeret at Wood

: Journey to the Interior

P.K.Page

: Adolescence

Wilfered Campbell

: The Winter Lakes

George Ryga

: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Margaret Lawrance

: The Stone Angel

Ondaatje

: Running in the Family

Sir Thomas More

: Utopia

Moliere

: The Misanthropist

Ibsen

: A Dolløs House

Wole Soyinka

: The Lion and the Jewel

Chinua Achebe

: Things Fall Apart

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