Syllabus for PG Entrance Test (English) 2025
(Based on NEP-2020 Syllabus at UG Level)
Unit I:
William Shakespeare Sonnet No.18,66,116
Milton “Lycidas”
Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “Batter My Heart”
Pope “Know then they self…the Times to come”
Unit II:
Samuel Johnson “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
Thomas Gray “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Alfred Tennyson “Ulysses”, “Break, Break, Break”
Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “The Last Ride Together”
Unit III:
William Blake “London”, “The Lamb”
William Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey”, “Resolution and Independence”
T S Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
W B Yeats “Adam’s Curse”, “Easter, 1916”
Unit IV:
William Shakespeare Othello
Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine the Great
Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest
G B ShawPygmalion
Unit V:
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Unit VI:
O’Henry “The Gift of the Magi”
Edgar Allen Poe “The Purloined Letter”
Leo Tolstoy “There are no Guilty People”
Guy De Maupassant “Fear”
Unit VII:
Poetic Forms
Poetic Devices
Types of Drama
Elements of Drama
Unit VIII:
Elements of Novel
Kinds of Novel
Kinds of Short Story
Elements of Short Story
Unit IX:
Emily Dickinson “Because I Could not Stop for Death”,
“Hope is a Thing with Feathers”
Robert Frost “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“Birches”
Eugene O’Neil The Hairy Ape
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Unit X:
Kamala Markandaya The Nowhere Man
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
George Lamming In the Castle of my Skin
Jhumpa Lahiri “Unaccustomed Earth”
Unit XI:
Hari Krishan Koul “This Capital City”
Amin Kamil “The Autumnal Storm”
Frantz Fanon “The Negro and Language”
Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable
Unit XII:
Derek Walcott “A Far Cry from Africa”,
“The Sea is History”
Edward K Brathwaite “Calypso”
“Negus”
A K Ramanujan “Self-Portrait”
“Conventions of Despair”
Sujata Bhatt: “The One Who Goes Away”
“Search For My Tongue”
Unit XIII:
Lala Ded
“With a rope of loose-spun am I towing”
“Import not esoteric truth to fools”
“My guru gave but one precept”
Habba Khatoon “Smouldering mulberry sears each fibre of my being”
“ Which rival of mine has seduced you away from me…”
Shaikh-ul-Alam
“The crow keeps on cawing to me somber forebodings”
“With a single breath mountains will resound”
“Whomsoever thou givest, none can take away from him”
Mahmud Gami “Sheikh Sanaan”
“The Parable of Man”
Unit XIV:
Langston Hughes “Let America be America Again"
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Audre Lorde “A Woman Speaks”
“A Litany for Survival”
Nissim Ezekiel “Background, Casually”
“Enterprise”
Eunice de Souza “Marriages are Made”
“Advice to Women”
Unit XV:
GirishKarnad Tughlaq
August Wilson Fences
Toni Morrison Beloved
Anita Desai Clear Light of Day
