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 PGT English  

A. Background of English Literature

1. English Literature from 1798 to 1900	2. William Wordsworth	3. S. T. Coleridge
4. John Keats	5. Shelly	6. Lord Byron
7. Charles Lamb	8. Charles Dickens	9. William Hazlitt
10. Alfred Tennyson	11. Robert Browning	12. Mathew Arnold
13. George Eliot	14. Thomas Carlyle	15. John Ruskin

B. Reading Comprehension of a Literary Prose and Poem

C. Poetry

Name of the Poet	Title	Notes / Practice Bits
William Shakespeare	1. Let me not to the marriage of True Minds	Notes Practice Bits
John Milton	2. On Time	Notes Practice Bits
John Milton	3. On Shakespeare	Notes Practice Bits
William Wordsworth	4. The Solitary Reaper	Notes Practice Bits
William Wordsworth	5. Education of Nature	Notes Practice Bits
William Wordsworth	6. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	Notes Practice Bits
William Wordsworth	7. The world is Too Much With Us	Notes Practice Bits
William Blake	8. A Poison Tree	Notes Practice Bits
William Blake	9. The Divine Image	Notes Practice Bits
William Blake	10. The School Boy	Notes Practice Bits
John Keats	11. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket	Notes Practice Bits
John Keats	12. Ode to the Nightingale	Notes Practice Bits
John Keats	13. Ode to Autumn	Notes Practice Bits
John Donne	14. A Lecture Upon the Shadow	Notes Practice Bits
John Donne	15. The Sunne Rising	Notes Practice Bits
W. B. Yeats	16. The Wild Swans of Coole	Notes Practice Bits
W. B. Yeats	17. Byzantium	Notes Practice Bits
W. B. Yeats	18. The Second Coming	Notes Practice Bits
S. T. Coleridge	19. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Notes Practice Bits
P. B. Shelly	20. The Cloud	Notes Practice Bits
Robert Frost	21. The Road Not Taken	Notes Practice Bits
Robert Frost	22. Dust of Snow	Notes Practice Bits
Robert Frost	23. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Notes Practice Bits
Rabindranath Tagore	21. The Last Bargain	Notes Practice Bits
Rabindranath Tagore	25. Where the Mind is Without Fear	Notes Practice Bits
Rabindranath Tagore	26. From Lover's Gift	Notes Practice Bits
Sarojini Naidu	27. The Bangle Sellers	Notes Practice Bits

D. Prose (Essay / Short Story / Novel)

Name of the Author	Title	Notes / Practice Bits
Francis Bacon	Of Studies	Notes Practice Bits
Charles Lamb	Dream Children  - A Reverie	Notes Practice Bits
Oscar Wilde	The Nightingale  and The Rose	Notes Practice Bits
Stephen Leacock	How to live to be 200	Notes Practice Bits
Stephen Leacock	The Conjuror's Revenge	Notes Practice Bits
EV Lucas	The Face on the Wall	Notes Practice Bits
O. Henry	After Twenty Years	Notes Practice Bits
Isaac Asimov	Robots and People	Notes Practice Bits
A G Gardiner	On Shaking Hands	Notes Practice Bits
R K Laxman	The Gold Frame	Notes Practice Bits
Ruskin Bond	How Far is the River	Notes Practice Bits
George Orwell	Animal Farm	Notes Practice Bits
R K Narayan	Next Sunday	Notes Practice Bits
R K Narayan	The Guide	Notes Practice Bits
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Notes Practice Bits
Jawaharlal Nehru	Chapter III- The Quest - Discovery of India	Notes Practice Bits

E. Drama

Name of the Author	Title	Notes / Practice Bits
William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Notes Practice Bits
William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Notes Practice Bits
William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Notes Practice Bits
William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Notes Practice Bits
Oscar Wilde	The Importance of Being Earnest	Notes Practice Bits
Fritz Karinthy	The Refund	Notes Practice Bits
Mahaswetha Devi	Mother of 1084	Notes Practice Bits

F. Literary Criticism

Name of the Author	Title	Notes / Practice Bits
Mathew Arnold	The Study of Poetry	Notes Practice Bits
T. S. Eliot:	Function of Criticism	Notes Practice Bits

1. Identify the poem and the poet

2. Identify the Poetic devices

3. Authors, Prose, Quotes & Dialogues