SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature
Edgar Allan Poe School of English
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.) Sixteen sections.
Associate Professors H. P. Johnson, Gordon and Davis, Assistant Professor
Shepperson, Mr. J. L. Vaughan, Mr. Varner, Mr. Gravely, Mr. R. B.
Davis, Mr. Black, and Mr. McEwen.
English A2: Composition and Reading: For engineering students.—
1. Composition with frequent themes and parallel reading in scientific literature.
2. The short report and letter writing. 3. The composition of technical papers
with special reference to the long report. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours
for those who have not received credit for English A1.)
Mr. J. L. Vaughan.
English B1: American Poetry and Prose: English A1 prerequisite.—
1. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. 2. American Essays and longer narratives
(Novel and Drama). 3. The American Short Story. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Gordon.
English B2: Drama and Biography: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—
1. Shakespeare. Three tragedies studied in class and other plays assigned as
parallel reading. Written reports. 2. Shakespeare continued. Three comedies
studied in class and others read as parallel. 3. Biography in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Written reports. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Metcalf and Assistant.
English B3: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century and Later:
English A1 or A2 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 Assistant.
English B4: The English Comic Tradition: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1.
Chaucer and medieval humor: The Canterbury Tales and other
literature from the middle ages. 2. Elizabethan literature. 3. Certain Restoration
and eighteenth-century comedies and novels. Lectures, collateral reading,
and the study of the texts. The literature of the medieval period will be read
in translation. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Hench.
English B5: Drama, Essay, and Eighteenth-Century Poetry: English
A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several of the historical plays studied
in class and others assigned as parallel reading. Written reports. 2. The early
eighteenth-century essayists. 3. Pope and his successors. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor H. P. Johnson.
English B6: Composition: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—The course
affords the student an opportunity to practice writing under critical supervision.
Designed primarily for those having some interest and ability in writing, it does
not exclude those who desire to overcome their disabilities in expression. Weekly
themes vary from simple exposition and description to the finished essay and
short story. Considerable parallel reading, with the writing of reviews, is called
for throughout the year. Scope is left for individual preference in the choice of
reading and in the types of writing. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Two
sections.
Associate Professor Davis and Assistant Professor Shepperson.
English B7: Ballad and Folk-song, the Ballad in Literature, and
Matthew Arnold: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—Two terms will be devoted
to the reading and study of ballads and folk-songs, British and American, with
phonographic and other emphasis on their musical character. An introduction to
the many critical and historical problems in connection with the course of English
Literature, will lead to a study of the "literary ballad", especially in the
nineteenth century. The third term, partly by contrast, partly as a continuation
of the study of the nineteenth century, will be devoted to Matthew Arnold.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English B8: Introduction to English and General Philology:
English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—Some knowledge of a foreign language is advisable.
1. The Nature and Structure of Language: a. origin of language. b. elements
of language including phonetics. 2. The Study of Language: The historical
method, language and cultural history, linguistic geography. 3. The History
of English: An introduction to Old English and the later development of
the language. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Hill.
The following courses are for graduates and advanced undergraduates.
English C1: The Novel: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The early English novel and its background.
2. The later nineteenth-century novel. 3. The contemporary English
novel.
Professor Wilson.
English C2: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two B courses
in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The Elizabethan
drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). 2. Restoration and eighteenth-century
drama. 3. The modern British drama.
Associate Professor Gordon.
English C3: Literature and Thought in England, 1789-1832 (Romantic
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is
presumed, but is not prerequisite. English literature of the earlier nineteenth
century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and thought of the
period. The course will link the fields of history and literature. (Not offered in
1935-36.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English C4: Literature and Thought in England, 1832-1900 (Victorian
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is presumed,
but is not prerequisite. English literature of the middle and later nineteenth
century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and thought
of the period. The course will link the fields of history and literature.
Associate Professor Davis.
English C5: Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—A study of Chaucer's writings and background.
Professor Hench.
English C6: Literary Composition: English B6 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 Gordon.
English C7: 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.
Professor Hench.
English C8: Middle English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Centuries and representative Metrical Romances.
Professor Hench.
English C9: Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction: Any two B courses in
the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Eighteenth-Century
Novel with considerable parallel reading and frequent reports. The
English Novel is traced from earliest times through the eighteenth century.
Assistant Professor Shepperson.
English C10: The History of the English Language: English B8 and
one other B course prerequisite.—A reading knowledge of Old English is
desirable. 1. Old English and its pre-history. 2. Old English Dialects.
3. Middle English dialects to the development of a standard language.
Lectures, reading of texts with interpretation of forms and constructions.
Hours by appointment.
Associate Professor Hill.
English C11: Middle English: Two B courses prerequisite.—Prose and
Middle English Didactic Poetry. Hours by appointment. (Not offered in 1935-36.)
Associate Professor Hill.
English C12: Spenser and Milton: Two B courses in English Literature
prerequisite.—1. Spenser's Minor Poems. 2. The Fairie Queene. 3. The
Poetry of Milton.
Professor Metcalf.
The following courses are for advanced graduate students.
English D1: 1. Edgar Allan Poe. 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hours by
appointment.
Professor Wilson.
English D2: 1. The Early English Drama. 2. Elizabethan Prose Literature.
Hours by appointment.
Professor Metcalf.
English D3: Shakespeare and his Times: Hours by appointment. (Not
offered in 1935-36.)
Professor Wilson.
English D4: 1. The Elizabethan Lyric. A reading knowledge of French
and Italian is desirable. 2. Seventeenth-Century Prose Literature. Hours by
appointment. (Not offered in 1935-36.)
Professor Metcalf.
English D5: The Renaissance in England: 1. A study of some of the
persons and movements on the continent contributing to the renaissance in England.
2. Studies in the literature and thought of England in the fifteenth and
early sixteenth centuries. Hours by appointment. (Not offered in 1935-36.)
Professor Hench.
English D6: Chaucer Seminar: English C5, or its equivalent prerequisite.
—The complete works of Chaucer, with the exception of the prose, will be read,
with special attention to literary, bibliographical and historical problems. Each
student will be expected to give a term paper involving some research during the
third term. The course will be divided as follows: 1. The Canterbury Tales. 2.
Troilus and Cressida. 3. The Minor Poems. Hours by appointment.
Offered in
alternate years if two or more qualified students apply.
Associate Professor Hill.
English D7: Seminar in Modern English: English C10 prerequisite.—
The problems of Early Modern English and the interpretation of written
records.
Associate Professor Hill.
English D8: Advanced Phonetics and the Investigation of Spoken
English: English C10, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Careful ear-training and
the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The methods and aims of investigation
of living speech.
Associate Professor Hill.
English D9: Low German: English C10 and any other course in philology
prerequisite.—Study of texts and grammar of Old Saxon and Old Frisian.
Associate Professor Hill.
Note: English D7, D8, D9 will be offered when one or more qualified students
present themselves, but only two of the three courses will be offered in
any one year.
Germanics D1: Gothic: Open to Graduate Students in English.—Three
hours a week, first term, by appointment.
Associate Professor Wood.
Germanics D2: Old Norse: Open to Graduate Students in English.—
Three hours a week, by appointment.
Associate Professor Wood.
French D1: Old French: Open to Graduate Students in English.—1. The
development of the French language in the early medieval period. 2. French
literature from the beginnings down to the fourteenth century.
Associate Professor Mellor.
Note: Candidates for Masters' degrees in English are required to take at
least one of the following session-courses: English C5, C7, C8, C10, C11. Candidates
for the Ph. D. must have English C7 and such other courses in language
and literature as their major professors advise. Thesis subjects must be submitted
to the chairman of the department for faculty approval by November 15
of the final year of candidacy.
Preliminary Examination for the Doctorate in English: A student who
desires to become a candidate for the Doctor's degree in English should stand a
preliminary examination in October of the session preceding his final year of
candidacy, and must take this examination not later than October 1 of his last
year. The examination may be written or oral, or both, at the discretion of the
examiners. In case the examination is not satisfactory, the applicant may be
allowed, by permission of the examiners, to present himself for a second trial
after a lapse of at least one academic term. If this second trial is unsatisfactory,
no further examination will be allowed. At the discretion of the professors
concerned, in the case of a student who has received the Master's degree from
this institution, an exceptionally high rating on the work for that degree, including
the oral examination and thesis, may be accepted as the equivalent of the preliminary
examination for the doctorate. Subjects of proposed dissertations
should be submitted for faculty approval after consultation with major professors.
