PGTRB English Study Materials 2026
Complete PGTRB English course structure, free unit-wise notes, summary, quiz, mock test and previous year preparation resources.
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PGTRB English Course Structure and Study Materials
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PGTRB English Course Structure
Complete unit-wise PGTRB English syllabus and topic structure for quick exam preparation.
PG TRB English New Syllabus 2025 Complete Topic List
Unit I – English Literature from 1400–1600
Poetry
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (The Book of the Duchess Chapter only)
Prothalamion and Epithalamion
Remembrance
Prose
Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Adversity, Of Revenge and Of Ambition
An Apologie for Poetrie
The Book of Job
Drama
Dr. Faustus
The Spanish Tragedy
Every Man in His Humour
Unit II – English Literature from 1601–1798
Poetry
Paradise Lost, Book – IX
To His Coy Mistress
The Canonization
The Rape of the Lock
Absalom and Achitophel
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Prose and Fiction
Life of Milton
Gulliver’s Travels
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robinson Crusoe
Drama
All for Love
The School for Scandal
The Way of the World
She Stoops to Conquer
Unit III – English Literature from 1798–1850
Poetry
Immortality, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude – Book-I
Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan
Ode to a Nightingale
Ozymandias, Adonais
Prose and Fiction
Essays of Elia – Christ’s Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream Children, New Year’s Eve
My First Acquaintance with Poets
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Sense and Sensibility
Wuthering Heights
Lyrical Drama
Prometheus Unbound
Unit IV – Literature from 1851 to the Present Day
Poetry
Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
Andrea Del Sarto
Ulysses
Byzantium
The Waste Land
God’s Grandeur
The Unknown Citizen
The Thought Fox
Prose and Fiction
On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History – Lecture III (Shakespeare)
The Study of Poetry
You and the Atom Bomb
Hard Times
The Mill on the Floss
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Mrs Dalloway
Drama
Look Back in Anger
Mother Courage and Her Children
Riders to the Sea
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
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Prologue
Brahma
Birches, Mending Wall
The Sparrow
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Cambridge Ladies
The Anti-Suffragists
Prose and Fiction
Where I Lived and What I Lived For
The American Scholar
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Beloved
The Namesake
Drama
Death of a Salesman
The Emperor Jones
A Streetcar Named Desire
Unit VII – (A) Indian Writing in English
Poetry
Gitanjali
Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa
Our Casuarina Tree
An Introduction
A Different History
Prose and Fiction
An Autobiography
Annihilation of Caste
Coolie
A Handful of Rice
The God of Small Things
Drama
Hayavadana
Silence! The Court is in Session
Rudali
Dance Like a Man
(B) Commonwealth Literature
Poetry
A Song of Hope
Waltzing Matilda
Telephone Conversation
The Dying Eagle
At Cooloolah
The Meaning of Africa
Australia
Prose and Fiction
Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial
Things Fall Apart
Cry, the Beloved Country
Voss
Drama
The Lion and the Jewel
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Stolen
Unit VIII – Literary Criticism
1. Aristotle – Poetics
2. Dryden – Essay of Dramatic Poesy
3. Coleridge – Biographia Literaria, Ch. XIV and Ch. XVII
4. T. S. Eliot – “The Metaphysical Poets”
5. I. A. Richards – “Four Kinds of Meaning”
6. William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity
7. Northrop Frye – “The Archetypes of Literature”
8. Cleanth Brooks – “Irony as a Principle of Structure”
9. Allen Tate – “Tension in Poetry”
10. Elaine Showalter – “Towards a Feminist Poetics”
11. Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex
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
Phrases, synonyms, antonyms, prefix and suffix, tenses, voice
Parts of speech, homophones, articles and determiners, identifying sentence patterns
Compound words, figures of speech, identifying and correcting errors
British and American English
PGTRB English Study Materials – Summary, Quiz & Mock Test
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Unit I – English Literature from 1400–1600
Poetry
Prose and Novel
Of Friendship
Unit II – English Literature from 1601–1798
Poetry
Prose and Novel
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Robinson Crusoe
Unit III - English Literature from 1798–1850
Poetry
Prose and Fiction
Unit IV - Literature from 1851 to the Present Day
Poetry
Prose and Fiction
Unit V – Plays and Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Unit VI – American Literature
Poetry
Prose and Fiction
Unit VII - (A) Indian Writing in English & (B) Commonwealth Literature
Indian Writing in English - Poetry
Indian Writing in English - Prose and Fiction
Indian Writing in English - Drama
Commonwealth Literature - Poetry
Commonwealth Literature - Prose and Fiction
Unit VIII - Literary Criticism
Unit IX - Language, Linguistics and Pedagogy
History of English Language and its Growth
Linguistics
Unit X - Application of Language Skills
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