+91 73971 64456 Bhavani, Erode www.springline.in
BT / BRTE • UG TRB • English

UG TRB English Syllabus

Complete unit-wise syllabus for English. Use this page to understand what to study and join a structured preparation plan.

10 Units

Unit-wise coverage

Tests

Topic-wise practice

Classes

Online / Offline support

Materials

Hard copy support

English Syllabus - Degree Standard

Click each unit to expand. You can also search author names, works, or topics.

  1. The Age of Chaucer
  2. The Age of Shakespeare
  3. The Age of Milton
  4. The Age of Dryden
  5. The Age of Pope
  6. The Age of Johnson
  7. The Age of Wordsworth
  8. The Age of Tennyson
  9. The Age of Hardy
  10. The Present Age

Reference Books

  • K.R. Ramachandran Nair - History of English Literature
  • W.H. Hudson - History of English Literature

Prose - Detailed Study

  • Francis Bacon - Of Revenge, Of Studies
  • Charles Lamb - Dream Children: A Reverie

Prose - Non-Detailed Study

  • Joseph Addison - Sir Roger at the Theatre
  • Richard Steele - The Spectator Club

Poetry - Detailed Study

  • Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion
  • William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
  • John Milton - Paradise Lost Book IX, lines 795-833
  • William Blake - The Lamb

Poetry - Non-Detailed Study

  • John Donne - The Bait
  • Sir Philip Sidney - Sonnet I from Astrophil and Stella
  • John Dryden - A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
  • Alexander Pope - Ode on Solitude

Drama

  • Christopher Marlowe - Dr. Faustus
  • George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
  • Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

Fiction

  • Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
  • H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

Introduction

  • Shakespearean Theatre and Audience
  • Fools and Clowns; Quartos and Folios
  • Shakespearean Women
  • Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Romances and Problem Plays

Plays - Detailed Study

  • Macbeth
  • Julius Caesar

Plays - Non-Detailed Study

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Richard II

Poetry - Detailed Study

  • William Wordsworth - The Solitary Reaper
  • S.T. Coleridge - Kubla Khan
  • John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
  • P.B. Shelley - Ozymandias

Poetry - Non-Detailed Study

  • Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
  • G.M. Hopkins - God's Grandeur

Prose

  • W. Hazlitt - My First Acquaintance with Poets
  • W.R. Inge - Spoon Feeding
  • John Ruskin - Of King's Treasuries

Drama & Fiction

  • Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
  • Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Prose

  • R.W. Emerson - Self-Reliance
  • Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream
  • Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address
  • H.D. Thoreau - A Battle of Ants
  • R.W. Emerson - The American Scholar

Poetry

  • Robert Frost - West Running Brook
  • Walt Whitman - Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking
  • Emily Dickinson - I Felt a Funeral
  • H.W. Longfellow - Nature
  • Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus
  • Carl Sandburg - Happiness
  • R.W. Emerson - Brahma

Drama, Short Stories & Fiction

  • Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
  • Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie
  • Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask of Amontillado
  • O. Henry - Let Me Feel Your Pulse
  • Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Match Girl
  • T.S. Arthur - An Angel in Disguise
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
  • Toni Morrison - Beloved

Prose

  • M.K. Gandhi - The Gospel of Non-Violence
  • S. Radhakrishnan - The World Community
  • A.P.J. Abdul Kalam - The Power of Prayer

Poetry

  • Sri Aurobindo Ghosh - The Tiger and the Deer
  • Sarojini Naidu - Love and Death
  • Vikram Seth - Evening Wheat
  • Nissim Ezekiel - Good Bye Party
  • Kamala Das - An Introduction
  • A.K. Ramanujan - Of Mothers, Among Other Things

Drama & Fiction

  • Girish Karnad - Nagamandala
  • Mahesh Dattani - Dance Like a Man
  • Vijay Tendulkar - Silence! The Court is in Session
  • Mulk Raj Anand - Coolie
  • R.K. Narayan - Swami and Friends
  • Chetan Bhagat - The Three Mistakes of My Life

Prose

  • Robert Wilson Lynd - The Pleasures of Ignorance
  • Bertrand Russell - Knowledge and Wisdom
  • E.M. Forster - Tolerance
  • R.L. Stevenson - An Apology for Idlers
  • E.V. Lucas - On Finding Things

Poetry, Drama & Novel

  • T.S. Eliot - Journey of the Magi
  • Dylan Thomas - The Hunchback in the Park
  • G.B. Shaw - Candida
  • Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
  • R.L. Stevenson - Treasure Island

  • Definition of language; spoken and written language
  • Diachronic and Synchronic approaches
  • Linguistics: definition, nature and scope
  • Speech organs; consonants, vowels and diphthongs
  • Syllable, stress, intonation and transcription exercises
  • Grammar: descriptive, prescriptive and functional approaches
  • Syntax: I.C. analysis, deep structure and surface structure
  • Morphology and Semantics: words, morphemes and meaning association

  • Plato and Aristotle
  • Horace, Quintilian, Longinus and Dante
  • Mimetic Theory and Pragmatic Theories
  • Sidney, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold and T.S. Eliot
  • Moralistic, Psychological, Archetypal, Sociological and Formalistic approaches
  • Feminist Criticism
  • Marxist Criticism
  • New Historicism
  • Eco Criticism
  • Post Colonial Criticism

Prose

  • Sojourner Truth - Ain't I a Woman?
  • Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Poetry

  • Judith Wright - Request to a Year
  • Sylvia Plath - Medusa
  • Kamala Das - The Old Playhouse
  • Supriya Bhattacharya - Draupadi
  • Maya Angelou - Still I Rise
  • Glady Cardiff - Combing
  • Gwendolyn Brooks - A Sunset of the City

Drama, Fiction & Short Stories

  • Susan Glaspell - Trifles
  • Caryl Churchill - Top Girls
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
  • Ambai - Forest

How Springline Helps You Complete This Syllabus

  • Daily topic-wise class plan
  • Hard copy study material
  • Individual topic tests
  • Mock exams and MCQ discussion
  • Recorded video access for missed classes
  • Criticism and literature special support
View UG TRB Course Page

Need Syllabus PDF + Course Details?

Submit your details and continue through WhatsApp.