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SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature.
English A1: Composition and English Literature.—1. Composition,
with weekly themes and parallel reading. 2. and 3. Survey of English literature,
with parallel reading and frequent themes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours for those who have not received credit for English A2 or A3 or
A4.) Ten sections. Associate Professor Johnson, Assistant Professor Gordon,
Assistant Professor Davis, Mr. Mason, Mr. Gwathmey and Mr. Murdaugh.
English A2: Composition and American Literature.—1. Composition,
with weekly themes and parallel reading. 2. and 3. Survey of American literature,
with parallel reading and frequent themes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours for those who have not received credit for English A1 or A3 or
A4.) Three sections. Assistant Professor Gordon and Mr. Mason.
English A3: Composition and Literature: For engineering students.—1.
and 2. Composition, with particular attention to exposition and description;
weekly themes. 3. Survey of nineteenth century prose literature, with parallel
reading and frequent themes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those
who have not received credit for English A1 or A2 or A4.) Associate Professor
Johnson.
English A4: Composition and Literature: For students needing further
drill in the essentials of writing.—Second and third terms only.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 2 session-hours for those who have not received corresponding credit in
English A1 or A2 or A3.) Mr. Mason.
English Literature B1: Drama, Essay, Short Story: English A1 or A2
or A3 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several plays studied in class and twelve
others assigned as parallel reading. Written analyses. 2. Eighteenth-century
essayists: Swift, Addison, Johnson, Burke. Parallel reading and written reports.
3. Modern prose fiction: Stevenson, Kipling, and the English short
story. The writing of brief sketches or stories.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Metcalf and Instructors.
English Literature B2: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century
and Later: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Nineteenth Century Poetry.
2. Prose from Lamb to Stevenson. 3. Contemporary poets and novelists.
Parallel reading and frequent papers.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Wilson and Instructors.
English Literature C1: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any
two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.
—1. The Elizabethan drama. 2. Restoration and eighteenth-century drama.
3. The modern British drama. Professor Metcalf and Professor Wilson.
English Literature C2: Literary Composition: English B3 and one other
B course prerequisite. This course is open only to those of proved aptitude in
composition who have obtained the consent of the professor in charge.—1. Essay-writing
and book-reviewing. 2. The writing of sketches and short stories.
3. Dramatic composition. Parallel reading in current periodical literature. By
consent also, this course may be taken two years in succession. Conferences.
Associate Professor Hench.
English Literature D1.—1. The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. 2.
Johnson and his Circle. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.
English Literature D2.—1. Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic): Spenser
and his contemporaries. 2. Seventeenth-century literature: Milton and
Dryden. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf. (Omitted in 1925-26.)
Edgar Allan Poe School of English.
English B1: American Poetry and Prose: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. American essays and orations. 2. American poetry, with a
study of verse forms. 3. American prose narratives, with emphasis on the
short stroy.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Assistant Professor Gordon.
English B2: The English Comic Tradition: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. Chaucer and mediaeval humor: The Canterbury Tales and
other literature from the middle ages. 2. Shakespeare's Comedies. 3. Certain
Restoration and eighteenth-century comedies and novels. Lectures, collateral
reading, and the study of the texts. In the literature of the mediaeval period
some works will be read in the original and some in translation.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor Hench.
English B3: Composition: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1.
Current usage in composition: a study of thought expression and the correct
use of English, with reading in current prose and frequent written exercises.
with emphasis on the writing of clear reports and narratives. 3. Special
kinds of writing; application of the principles studied thus far to more
specialized writing; descriptive narratives, reviews, and the special article.—
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Assistant Professors Gordon and Davis.
English C1: The Novel: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The English novel of the nineteenth
century. 2. The American novel. 3. The contemporary novel. Professor
Wilson and Professor Metcalf.
English C2: Old English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. Old English prose. 2. Old English
poetry: Beowulf. 3. Beowulf. Associate Professor Hench.
English C3: Middle English; Chaucer: Any two B courses in the
Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. Middle English
prose and verse. 2. Chaucer. 3. Chaucer. Associate Professor Hench.
English D1.—Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson.
English D2.—Shakespeare and his Times. Hours by appointment. Professor
Wilson. (Omitted in 1925-26.)
English D3.—(1) Old English: The Cynewulf poems. (2) Early English
metrical romances. Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson. (Given
upon application of four or more graduate students.)
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