English Language And Literature Syllabus of TNPSC

English Language And Literature - (Code - 045)

UNIT I - Renaissance and Reformation :- (Elizabethan Age) :-

• John Donne
• Shakespeare
• Milton c
• Marlowe
• Ben Jonson
• Francis Bacon

UNIT II - The Age of Dryden and Pope :-

• John Dryden
• Alexander Pope
• Addison and Steele
• William Congreve
• Sheridan
• Goldsmith
• Swift
• Dr. Johnson
• Fielding
• Richardson
  

UNIT III - The Age of Wordsworth:-

• Coleridge
• Wordsworth
• Keats
• Shelley
• Thomson
• Thomas Gray
• Byron
• Jane Austen
• Walter Scott
• Charles Lamb
• Hazlitt.

UNIT IV - The Age of Tennyson:-

• Tennyson
• Robert Browning
• Arnold
• Charles Dickens
• Thomas Hardy
• Emile Bronte
• George Eliot
• Oscar Wilde
• Galsworthy
• Charles Lamb
• Hazlitt.

UNIT V - Twentieth Century Literature:-

• W.B. Yeats
• T.S Eliot
• W.H. Auden
• Macaulay
• Bertrand Russell
• E.M. Forster
• G.B. Shaw
• Virginia Woolf
• D.H.Lawrence
• Joseph Conrad

UNIT VI - Indian Literature in English :-

• Tagore
• Sri Aurobindo
• Nehru
• R.C. Dutt
• Dr. Radhakrishnan
• Raja Rao
• Sarojini Naidu
• Toru Dutt
• A.K. Ramanujam

UNIT VII - Modern Indo-Anglians :-

• Mulk Raj Anand
• Kamala Das
• Nissim Ezekiel
• Nayantara shagal
• R.K. Narayan
• Nirad Chaudhuri

UNIT VIII - Literary Forms and Literary Criticism :-

Part - A:- 1 The Epic 2 The Ballad 3 The Sonnet

• 4 Lyrics 5 The Ode 6 The Elegy
• 7 Tragedy 8 Comedy 9 Operas
• 10 The Short Story

Part - B:- 1 Aristotle 2 Dr. Johnson 3 Dryden
4 Arnold 5 T.S. Eliot

UNIT IX - Social History of England :-

• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Puritanism
• Coffee houses
• French Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• OxfordMovement

UNIT X - Use of English :-

• Synonyms/Antonyms
• Idioms and Pharases
• Pairs of Words
• Correction of sentences (Tense,Article,Preposition)
• Gerunds,Participles, Infinitives
• One-Word substitute
• SpellingTest