UG TRB English Syllabus

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