PG TRB ENGLISH 2025

UNIT - 1 ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM1400-1600

S.N AUTHORS LIFE & DEATH WORK PUBLISHED REMARKS

1 GEOFERRY CHAUCER 1340-1400 Prologue to 1373 Collection of 24 tales, 858 lines prologue, 17000 lines. The Decameron by Boccaccio
Canterbury tales
(FATHER OF ENGLISH Book of the duchess, (or) 1369 Dream vision, 1334 lines in two Proem1-290, dream 291-1334.Octtava Rima for the
LITERATURE) Dream of Chaucer, (or) first time. A man who cannot sleep 8years.
Death of Blunche, CEYX, ALCYONE
Written between 1368-1372
2 THOMAS WYATT 1503-1542 Remembrance 1557 Rime Royal, his 69th poem among total 271 poems, printer Richard Tottel, WYATT’S AFFAIR
7 line, 3 stanza.(21 WITH HIGH BORN WOMEN (ANNE BOLEYN)
lines)
3 EDMUND SPENCER 1552-1599 EPITHALAMION 11 JUNE, ODE, about his own marriage (Elizabeth Boyle) published by William Ponsby
(POETS POET CALLED 24 stanza, 433 lines. 1595
LAMB) (365 L , 68 S. lines)
PROTHALAMION 8NOV, Marriage songs, iambic Pentameter final line iambic Hexameter or Alexandrian
(18L , 10S, 180 lines) 1596
4 PHILIP SYDNEY 1554-1586 AN APOLOGIE FOR 1595 Published by Henry olney, reply to Stephen Gosson,
POETRY (The
defence of Poesie)
5 THOMAS KYD 1558-1594 THE SPANISH TRAGEDY, Revenge play, senecan tragedy. The play staged by Lord Strange’s Men in
(Hieronimo is mad again) 1592&1593.recorded in Stationer’s Register in 1598. Protagonist Hieronimo, Antagonist
6 FRANCIES BACON 1561-1626 Feb22,1592 Balthazar. Play within the play the tragedy of SOLIMAN AND PERSEDA, Soliman
(lord Verulam viscount St. Albans) Father played by Balthazar, Erasto was played by Lorenzo, Perseda was played by Bel
Nicholas Bacon, OF STUDIES, 1597
Studied Trinity Col. Imperia, Hieronimo played the role of Bashas.
OF TRUTH, 1625
Under Dr. John Widgift.
The father of English Essays
OF ADVERSITY, 1625
3 Edition 1597, 1612, 1625. Published in 1625 with 58 essays. (10+38+10)
The young lord keeper, OF REVENGE, 1625
23 corruption charges, fine 40000 pounds, OF AMBITION, 1612
James I paid for him. OF FRIENDSHIP, 1612&1625 Blank verse, To study necromancy, black arts and love magic more than theology.
M.P 3 times
HOMO FUGE (Latin phrase) – fly, o man, blood sign 24y, 7dedly sins, Helen of troy
appear 2 times. Morality play (Good vs Evil). Belzebub one of Lucifer officers, a
7 CHIRISTOBER MARLOWE 1564-1593 DR. FAUSTUS 1604
powerful demon. Mephistophilis disguises as Franciscan Friar. Faustus body turn to
pieces.
8 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564-1616 UNIT – V

9 BEN JONSON 1572-1637 EVERY MAN IN HIS 1598 Played by Chamberlin’s Men at Curtain Theatre. Shakespeare acted as Edward knowell.5Act,
HUMOUR dedicated to Master Camden, Clarencieux. Dedication signed by your true lover, Ben Jonson
  EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR, THOMAS KYD died - 1558
 EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOUR, EDMUND SPENCER died – 1599
 EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR PUBLISHED FOLIO, SHAKESPEARE died – 1616
 Metaphysical word coined by Samuel Johnson, Dictionary Published - 1755

UNIVERSITY WITS METAPHYSICAL POETS POET LAUREATE

1 JOHN LYLLY 1 JOHN DONNE 1 John Dryden (1668-1689),
2 THOMAS KYD 2 GEORGE HERBERT 2 Thomas Shadwell (1689-1692),
3 GEORGE PEELE 3 HENDRY VAUGHAM 3 Nahum Tate (1692-1715),
4 THOMAS LODGE 4 RICHARD CRASHAW 4 Nicholas Rowe (1715-1718),
5 ROBERT GREENE 5 ABRAHAM COWLEY 5 Laurence Eusden (1718-1730),
6 CHIRSTOBER MARLOWE 6 ANDREW MARVELL 6 Colley Cibber (1730-1757),
7 THOMASH NASH 7 William Whitehead (1757-1785),
8 Thomas Warton (1785-1790),
9 Henry James Pye (1790-1813)
10 Robert Southey (1813-1843).
 UNIT – 2 ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1601-1798
S.N AUTHORS LIFE & WORK PUBLISHED REMARKS
DEATH
1 JOHN DONNE 1572 -1631 THE CANONIZATION 1633 Dramatic monologue Iambic pentameter
(5 stanza, 45 lines)
2 JOHN MILTON 1608-1674 PARADISE LOST 1667 & ADAM and EVE’s disobedience and FALL OF MAN
(Lady Christ) (1189 lines) 1674 (Satan children’s SIN & DEATH)
3 ANDREW MARVELL 1621 -1678 TO HIS COY MISTRESS 1681 3THEME: LOVE & DEATH, LOVE POEM, it celebrates
(3 stanza 45 lines) beauty, youth, and sexual pleasure

JOHN BUNYAN 1628-1688 THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS 1678 & CHRISTIAN JOURNEY DESTRUCTION TO CELESTIAL
1684 CITY (GUIDE EVANGELIST)
4 JOHN DRYDEN 1631-1700 ABSOLAM AND ACHITOBEL 1681 A Political SATIRIC, BIBLICAL ALLEGORY, HEROIC
(1st poet laureate) (1144 lines) COUPLET ( Restoration Period)
3rd person omniscient
ALL FOR LOVE & 1678 OPEN IN THE TEMPLE OF ISIS. ABOUT ANTONIO &
THE WORLD WELL LOST CLEAPATRA ( Tragedy)
5 DANIEL DEFOE 1660 -1731 RABINSON CRUSOE 1719 THE REAL LIFE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER
SELKIRK LIVED 4Y PACIFIC ISLAND CALLED ‘MAS A
TIERRA’
6 JONATHAN SWIFT 1667-1745 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 1726 JOUNEY TO SEA VOYAGE 4 PARTS
7 WILLIAM CONGREEVE 1670-1729 THE WAY OF THE WORLD 1700 OPEN A CHOCOLATE HOUSE (comedy of manners,
Restoration comedy)
8 ALEXANDER POPE 1688 -1744 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK 1712 Dedicated to JOHN CARYLL. Arabella Fermore Open
(Mock Epic) 794 lines. & 1714 with an invocation of a MUSE. Poem begins with 12
noon the rising sun
9 SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-1784 LIFE OF MILTON 1779-1781 About 52 poet biographies 18th C, 3 Section A
Biography, a brief character, a critical section
10 THOMAS GRAY 1716 -1771 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY 1751 A meditation in a particular place upon the graves of
CHURCHYARD (32 stanza, 128 lines.) the poor. Heroic Courtrai, 3 Epitaph
11 OLIVER GOLDSMITH 1728-1774 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER 1773 Act I begins at the Hardcastles’ home in the countryside,
David Garrick, a famous actor and theatrical producer,
wrote the Prologue
12 RICHARD BRINSELY 1751 -1816 THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDEL 1777 (Comedy) OPEN IN two separate place DRESSING
SHERIDEN ROOM OF LADY SNEERWELL, TEAZLES and their
marriage
UNIT -3 ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1798 – 1850
S.N AUTHORS LIFE & WORK PUBLISHED REMARKS
DEATH
1 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 1770-1850 IMMORTALITY, 1807 2 parts 1802, 1807.
Recollection of early childhood.
Poet Laureate, Romantic poet, lake poet TINTERN ABBEY, 13JULY, 162 lines, poem begin with 5y past, 5
Dorothy Wordsworth (sister),John Wordsworth 1798 summers and five long winters had gone
(brother), Christopher Wordsworth (brother), THE PRELUDE –BOOK –I July,1850 An Autobiographical poem, Growth of
Richard Wordsworth (great-great-grandson), poets mind. Blank verse 14 Books.7883 line
wife Mary Hutchinson PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS 4 Oct,1798 19 poems of wordsworth and 4 poem of
Coleridge
2 SAMUEL TYLOR COLERIDGE 1772-1834 ODE TO DEJECTION (letter to Sara Oct4, 1802 Originally written 340 lines, printed
Hutchinson) Epigraph 4 line, 8 contos. 139 lines. Published Morning Post.
KUBLA KHAN (A Vision in Dream; A 1816 Kubla khan capital Xanadu, Near the
Fragment) 54 lines. river Alph
3 JOHN KEATS 1795-1821 ODE TO KNIGHTINGALE (80 lines, 8 stanza) JULY 1819 Inspired by bird song, keats composed one
day. Published in Annals of the fine Arts
4 P.B. SHELLY 1799-1829 OZYMANDIAS sonnet 11JAN, 1818 Theme:- Aging, Death, Immortality
ADONAIS 495 lines in 55 spenzerian stanza July,1821 Death of John Keats,
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND 1820
4 act, lyrical drama the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to
humanity, for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus.
5 CHARLES LAMB 1775-1834 ESSAYS OF ELIA CHRIST’S HOSPITAL 1823 Published London magazine
THE SOUTH SEA HOUSE 1820 Published London magazine
DREAM CHILDREN JAN, 1822 Published London magazine

NEW YEAR EVE JAN,1821 Published London magazine

6 WILLIAM HAZILITT 1778-1830 MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH POETS 1823
Coleridge was the poet with whom Hazlitt was first acquainted. “My First Acquaintance with Poets” discusses the
relationship between prose, poetry, and gender issues. Hazlitt used poetic elements while writing his prose.
7 JANE AUSTIN 1775-1817 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Elinor and 1811 Three Dashwood Sisters and Widowed
Marianne) Novel, Fiction, Romance novel Mother
8 EMILY BRONTE 1816-1855 WUTHERING HEIGHTS (love & revenge) Nov24,1847 Gothic novel, 3 volumes, 34 chapters
Heathcliff Byronic hero
UNIT 4 LITERATURE FROM 1851 TO THE PRESENT DAY
S.N AUTHORS LIFE & WORK PUBLISHED REMARKS
DEATH
1 Alfred lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 Ulysses 1842 Dramatic monologue and a companion of Lotus -Eaters
2 Robert Browning 1812 - 1889 Andrea del sarto 1855 The Faultless painter, dramatic monologue
3 Mathew Arnold 1822-1888 The Scholar Gypsy 1853 250 lines, pastoral elegy. The story based on the Vanity of
Dogmatizing (1661)
Dover Beach 1867 Dramatic monologue, elegy

A Study of Poetry 1880 Arnold argues that poetry is a uniquely excellent art form and that, due to
its virtues, it has a “high destiny” in human affairs.
4 G.M. Hopkins 1844-1889 God’s Grandeur 1877, 1918 God and Nature during the second Industrial Revolution.
An English poet and humanity destroyed nature and its connection to God,
Jesuit priest
5 T.S.ELIOT 1888-1965 The Waste Land 1922 433 lines in free verse
6 W.B. Yeats 1865-1939 Byzantium 1925 40 lines, 5 stanza. Setting “A Night in the city of Byzantium”.
7 W.H. Auden 1907-1973 The Unknown Citizen 1940 32 lines, This poem deals with A man in the modern age science
and technology. The poem is a kind of satirical elegy
8 Ted Hughes 1930-1998 The Thought Fox 1995 6 stanza, 24 lines.

9 Thomas Caryle 1795-1881 On Heroes, Hero- 1841

worship and the
Heroic in History
Lecture III-
Shakespeare
10 George Orwell 1903-1950 You and the Atom 1945 George Orwell discusses the implications of the atomic bomb,
Bomb particularly its impact on the balance of power and the future of
warfare. He argues that the bomb, while potentially ending large-scale
wars, could also lead to a prolonged "peace that is no peace,"
characterized by a permanent standoff between major powers. Orwell
also uses the term "cold war" to describe this standoff.
S.N AUTHORS LIFE & WORK PUBLISHED REMARKS
DEATH
11 Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Hard Times 1854
The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic
conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways. based on
19th-century.

12 George Eliot 1819-1880 The Mill on the Floss 1860 Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, the novel details the lives of Tom
and Maggie Tulliver, siblings who grow up at Dorlcote Mill on the River
Floss. The mill is at the confluence of the Floss and the smaller River
Ripple, near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the
rivers and the village are fictional.
13 Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 Mayor of Caster 1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is
bridge an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's
Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge
standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth.
14 Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 Mrs. Dalloway 14 May It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-
1925 class woman in post-First World War England.
15 John Osborne 1929-1994 Look Back in Anger 1956 It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and
educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy
Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife
Alison.
16 Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956 Mother courage and 19APR,1941 Mother Courage is considered by Oskar Eustis to be the greatest play of
Her Children the 20th century, and perhaps also the greatest anti-war play of all
time.
17 J.M Synge 1871-1909 Riders to the Sea 1904 The struggle of a people against the impersonal but relentless
cruelty of the sea.
18 Caryl Churchill 1938 Top Girls 1980 The new employment office managed by Merlene. Host a dinner
party, they are plucked from history, art, myth.