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UGC NET English Syllabus

UGC NET English Course Syllabus

(Newly Updated Syllabus as per the UGC NET December 2025 Exam Pattern)

Module 01: British Literature

Chapter 01- Old & Middle English (500 TO 1300 AD)

Lesson 1: Introduction to Anglo Saxon Period
Lesson 2: Important Works of Anglo Saxon Period
Lesson 3: Introduction to Anglo Norman Literature
Lesson 4: Important Works of Anglo Norman Period

Chapter 02- Age Of Chaucer (1300 TO 1400 AD)

Lesson 5: Introduction to Age of Chaucer
Lesson 6: Geoffrey Chaucer
Lesson 7: William Langland
Lesson 8: John Wycliffe
Lesson 9: John Mandeville
Lesson 10: John Gower
Lesson 11: Thomas Hoccleve
Lesson 12: John Lydgate
Lesson 13: John of Trevisa

Chapter 03- Age of Revival (1400 to 1550 AD)

Lesson 14: Introduction to Age of Revival
Lesson 15: Printing: William Caxton
Lesson 16: Popular Bible Translations
POETS
Lesson 17: Robert Henryson
Lesson 18: William Dunbar
Lesson 19: Thomas Wyatt
Lesson 20: Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey)
Lesson 21: Sir David Lyndsay
Lesson 22: John Skelton
Lesson 23: Roger Ascham
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 24: Thomas More
Lesson 25: Thomas Malory
Lesson 26: Richard Tottel
Lesson 27: William Tyndale
Lesson 28: Miles Coverdale
Lesson 29: Thomas Cranmer
Lesson 30: Thomas Elyot
Lesson 31: Nicholas Udall
Lesson 32: Erasmus

Chapter 04- Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)

Lesson 33: Introduction to Elizabethan Age
Lesson 34: History & Background of English Theatre
Lesson 35: Early Elizabethan Plays
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 36: William Shakespeare
Lesson 37: Christopher Marlowe
Lesson 38: Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
Lesson 39: Thomas Nashe
Lesson 40: Thomas Kyd
Lesson 41: John Lyly
Lesson 42: Robert Greene
Lesson 43: George Peele
Lesson 44: Thomas Lodge
Lesson 45: John Heywood
Lesson 46: John Still
POETS
Lesson 47: Edmund Spenser
Lesson 48: Philip Sidney
Lesson 49: George Gascoigne
Lesson 50: Michael Drayton
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 51: Francis Bacon
Lesson 52: Richard Hooker
Lesson 53: Stephen Gosson
Lesson 54: Samuel Purchas
Lesson 55: Lewis Bayly
Lesson 56: Walter Raleigh
Lesson 57: Richard Hakluyt
Lesson 58: John Knox
Lesson 59: John Foxe
Lesson 60: William Camden
Lesson 61: Raphael Holinshed

Chapter 05- Jacobean & Caroline Age (1600 to 1640)

Lesson 62: Introduction to Jacobean & Caroline Age
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 63: King James I
Lesson 64: Robert Burton (Democritus Junior)
Lesson 65: Robert Cawdrey
DRAMATISTS
Major Dramatists
Lesson 66: Ben Jonson
Lesson 67: John Webster
Lesson 68: Thomas Middleton
Lesson 69: Thomas Heywood
Lesson 70: Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
Lesson 71: George Chapman
Lesson 72: Thomas Dekker
Minor Dramatists
Lesson 73: John Marston
Lesson 74: Philip Massinger
Lesson 75: James Shirley
Lesson 76: Cyril Tourneur
Lesson 77: William Rowley
Lesson 78: George Villiers
Lesson 79: John Ford
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 80: John Donne
Lesson 81: Andrew Marvell
Lesson 82: George Herbert
Lesson 83: Abraham Cowley
Lesson 84: Henry Vaughan
Lesson 85: Thomas Carew
Lesson 86: Richard Lovelace
Lesson 87: Robert Herrick
Lesson 88: John Suckling
Lesson 89: Francis Quarles
Minor Poets
Lesson 90: William Cartwright
Lesson 91: Richard Corbet
Lesson 92: Thomas Randolph
Lesson 93: Edward Herbert (Lord Herbert of Cherbury)
Lesson 94: Richard Crashaw
Lesson 95: Sir William Davenant
Lesson 96: Edmond Waller

Chapter 06- Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)

Lesson 97: Introduction to Civil War & Interregnum Period
POETS
Lesson 98: John Milton
Lesson 99: Lucy Hutchinson
Lesson 100: Margaret Cavendish
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 101: John Bunyan
Lesson 102: Thomas Browne
Lesson 103: Jeremy Taylor
Lesson 104: Richard Baxter
Lesson 105: Thomas Fuller
Lesson 106: Isaac Walton
Lesson 107: Gerrard Winstanley

Chapter 07- Restoration Age (1660 to 1700 AD)

Lesson 108: Introduction to Restoration Age
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 109: Samuel Pepys
Lesson 110: Thomas Rymer
Lesson 111: Jeremy Collier
Lesson 112: John Evelyn
Lesson 113: William Dampier
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 114: William Congreve
Lesson 115: Aphra Behn
Lesson 116: William Wycherley
Lesson 117: George Etherege
Lesson 118: Thomas Otway
Lesson 119: John Vanbrugh
Lesson 120: George Farquhar
Lesson 121: Nahum Tate
Lesson 122: Colley Cibber
POETS
Lesson 123: John Dryden
Lesson 124: Samuel Butler
Lesson 125: John Gay
Lesson 126: John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)

Chapter 08- Enlightenment Age (1700 to 1800 AD)

Lesson 127: Introduction to Age of Enlightenment
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 128: Samuel Johnson
Lesson 129: Jonathan Swift
Lesson 130: Joseph Addison
Lesson 131: Richard Steele
Lesson 132: James Boswell
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 133: Oliver Goldsmith
Lesson 134: Richard Sheridan
NOVELISTS
Lesson 135: Daniel Defoe
Lesson 136: Laurence Sterne
Lesson 137: Henry Fielding
Lesson 138: Samuel Richardson
Lesson 139: Tobias Smollett
Lesson 140: William Beckford
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 141: William Blake
Lesson 142: Alexander Pope
Lesson 143: Thomas Gray
Lesson 144: Robert Burns
Lesson 145: James Thomson
Lesson 146: Thomas Chatterton
Lesson 147: Thomas Percy
Lesson 148: Robert Blair
Lesson 149: William Cowper
Lesson 150: William Collins
Minor Poets
Lesson 151: George Crabbe
Lesson 152: Edward Young
Lesson 153: Thomas Parnell
Lesson 154: Matthew Prior
Lesson 155: Sarah Catherine Martin

Chapter 09- Romantic Age (1800 to 1850 AD)

Lesson 156: Introduction to Romantic Age
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 157: William Wordsworth
Lesson 158: John Keats
Lesson 159: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lesson 160: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lesson 161: Lord Byron
Lesson 162: Robert Southey
Lesson 163: John Clare
Minor Poets
Lesson 164: John Stagg
Lesson 165: Jane Taylor & Ann Taylor
Lesson 166: William Miller
Lesson 167: Joanna Baillie
Lesson 168: Anna Yearsley
Lesson 169: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Lesson 170: Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.)
Lesson 171: Charlotte Smith
Lesson 172: Mary Robinson
Lesson 173: Felicia Hemans
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 174: Charles Lamb (Elia)
Lesson 175: Mary Lamb (Bridget Elia)
Lesson 176: William Hazlitt
Lesson 177: Thomas De Quincey
Lesson 178: Leigh Hunt
Lesson 179: Walter Savage Landor
Lesson 180: Hannah More
NOVELISTS
Lesson 181: Jane Austen
Lesson 182: Walter Scott
Lesson 183: Mary Shelley
Lesson 184: Frances Burney (Fanny Burney)
Lesson 185: Ann Radcliff
Lesson 186: William Godwin
Lesson 187: Horace Walpole
Lesson 188: Thomas Love Peacock
Lesson 189: Maria Edgeworth
Lesson 190: Matthew Lewis
Lesson 191: Charles Maturin

Chapter 10- Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)

Lesson 192: Introduction to Victorian Age
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 193: Robert Browning
Lesson 194: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lesson 195: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lesson 196: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lesson 197: Christina Rossetti
Lesson 198: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lesson 199: A.C. Swinburne
Lesson 200: William Morris
Minor Poets
Lesson 201: Robert Buchanan
Lesson 202: Edward Carpenter
Lesson 203: Arthur Hugh Clough
Lesson 204: John Keble
Lesson 205: Alfred Austin
Lesson 206: Coventry Patmore
Lesson 207: Edward Fitzgerald
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
Lesson 208: Charles Dickens
Lesson 209: Thomas Hardy
Lesson 210: George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Lesson 211: William Makepeace Thackeray
Lesson 212: Charlotte Bronte
Lesson 213: Anne Bronte
Lesson 214: Rudyard Kipling
Lesson 215: Anthony Trollope
Lesson 216: Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell)
Lesson 217: Elizabeth Gaskell
Lesson 218: William Wilkie Collins
Lesson 219: Robert Louis Stevenson
Lesson 220: Samuel Butler
Lesson 221: Benjamin Disraeli
Lesson 222: R.M. Ballantyne
Lesson 223: Bram Stoker
Lesson 224: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lesson 225: Arthur Conan Doyle
Minor Novelists
Lesson 226: George Meredith
Lesson 227: Jerome K. Jerome
Lesson 228: George Gissing
Lesson 229: Charles Kingsley
Lesson 230: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lesson 231: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lesson 232: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Lesson 233: Charles Reade
ESSAYISTS
Lesson 234: Matthew Arnold
Lesson 235: Thomas Carlyle
Lesson 236: John Ruskin
Lesson 237: Walter Pater
Lesson 238: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lesson 239: John Henry Newman
Lesson 240: Henry Mayhew
Lesson 241: John Richard Green
Lesson 242: Harriet Martineau
PLAYWRIGHTS
Lesson 243: Oscar Wilde
Lesson 244: A.W. Pinero

Chapter 11- Modern Age (1900 to 1950 AD)

Lesson 245: Introduction to Modern Age
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
Lesson 246: Virginia Woolf
Lesson 247: D.H. Lawrence
Lesson 248: James Joyce
Lesson 249: E.M. Forster
Lesson 250: Joseph Conrad
Lesson 251: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Lesson 252: Graham Greene
Lesson 253: Evelyn Waugh
Lesson 254: Aldous Huxley
Lesson 255: Arnold Bennett
Lesson 256: H.G. Wells
Lesson 257: Ford Maddox Ford
Minor Novelists
Lesson 258: C.S. Lewis
Lesson 259: Wyndham Lewis
Lesson 260: Elizabeth Bowen
Lesson 261: J.M. Barrie
Lesson 262: Arthur Koestler
Lesson 263: C.P. Snow
Lesson 264: L.P. Hartley
Lesson 265: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lesson 266: May Sinclair
Lesson 267: Nevil Shute
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 268: George Bernard Shaw
Lesson 269: John Galsworthy
Lesson 270: John Millington Synge
Lesson 271: Seán O'Casey
Lesson 272: J.B. Priestley
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 273: T.S. Eliot (+)
Lesson 274: W.B. Yeats
Lesson 275: W.H. Auden
Lesson 276: Dylan Thomas
Lesson 277: Stephen Spender
Lesson 278: Cecil Day-Lewis
Lesson 279: Louis MacNeice
Lesson 280: Robert Graves
Lesson 281: Wilfred Owen
Lesson 282: Siegfried Sassoon
Lesson 283: Robert Bridges
Lesson 284: John Masefield
Lesson 285: A.E. Housman
Minor Poets
Lesson 286: Stevie Smith
Lesson 287: Arthur Symons
Lesson 288: Michael Roberts
Lesson 289: Sidney Keyes
Lesson 290: Alun Lewis
Lesson 291: Rupert Brooke
Lesson 292: Harriet Monroe
Lesson 293: Edward Thomas
Lesson 294: Alfred Noyes
SHORT STORY WRITERS
Lesson 295: H.H. Munro (Saki)
Lesson 296: Katherine Mansfield
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 297: Lytton Strachey
Lesson 298: Winston Churchill
Lesson 299: John Strachey
Lesson 300: Harriet Shaw Weaver
Lesson 301: Dora Marsden

Chapter 12- Post Modern & Contemporary Age (1950 onwards)

Lesson 302: Introduction to Post Modern Age
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
Lesson 303: William Golding
Lesson 304: Somerset Maugham
Lesson 305: Doris Lessing
Lesson 306: Kingsley Amis
Lesson 307: Ian McEwan
Lesson 308: Peter Ackroyd
Lesson 309: Malcolm Bradbury
Lesson 310: John Fowles
Lesson 311: David Lodge
Lesson 312: A.S. Byatt
Lesson 313: Jeanette Winterson
Lesson 314: Agatha Christie
Lesson 315: Christopher Isherwood
Lesson 316: Graham Swift
Lesson 317: Martin Amis
Lesson 318: John Wain
Lesson 319: Anthony Burgess
Lesson 320: Iris Murdoch
Lesson 321: Allan Sillitoe
Lesson 322: Angela Carter
Lesson 323: Eoin Colfer
Lesson 324: Roddy Doyle
Lesson 325: Beryl Bainbridge
Lesson 326: J.G. Farrell
Lesson 327: J.K. Rowling
Lesson 328: J.R.R. Tolkien
Minor Novelists
Lesson 329: Muriel Spark
Lesson 330: Sebastian Faulks
Lesson 331: J.G. Ballard
Lesson 332: Alan Hollinghurst
Lesson 333: John Banville
Lesson 334: Howard Jacobson
Lesson 335: Lawrence Durrell
Lesson 336: John Berger
Lesson 337: Joyce Cary
Lesson 338: Angus Wilson
Lesson 339: Anthony Powell
Lesson 340: John Braine
Lesson 341: Dodie Smith
Lesson 342: Irvine Welsh
Lesson 343: Marina Warner
Lesson 344: David Storey
Lesson 345: John Masters
Lesson 346: William Cooper
DRAMATISTS
Major Dramatists
Lesson 347: Harold Pinter
Lesson 348: Samuel Beckett
Lesson 349: John Osborne
Lesson 350: Tom Stoppard
Lesson 351: Arnold Wesker
Lesson 352: Caryl Churchill
Lesson 353: Joe Orton
Lesson 354: Edward Bond
Lesson 355: Brian Friel
Lesson 356: Shelagh Delaney
Lesson 357: John Arden
Lesson 358: David Hare
Minor Dramatists
Lesson 359: Noel Coward
Lesson 360: Terence Rattigan
Lesson 361: Christopher Fry
Lesson 362: Alan Ayckbourn
Lesson 363: Alan Bennett
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 364: Philip Larkin
Lesson 365: Seamus Heaney
Lesson 366: Ted Hughes
Lesson 367: Thom Gunn
Lesson 368: Roy Fuller
Lesson 369: Geoffrey Hill
Lesson 370: J.H. Prynne
Lesson 371: Elizabeth Jennings
Lesson 372: Donald Davie
Lesson 373: Paul Muldoon
Minor Poets
Lesson 374: D.J. Enright
Lesson 375: James Fenton
Lesson 376: Roy Fisher
Lesson 377: Tony Harrison
Lesson 378: Christopher Middleton
Lesson 379: Carol Ann Duffy
Lesson 380: Patrick Kavanagh
Lesson 381: John Betjeman
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