SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
Professor Garnett.
Instruction in this School is given in three classes:
Class of Early English.—In this class the historical and philological
study of the language is pursued, the class beginning with its oldest forms,
and tracing the language, by the study of specimens, through its different
periods to the formation of modern English. After a thorough study of the
grammar, selected pieces of Old and Middle English prose and poetry are
read, both in class and privately, with a view to acquiring a philological
knowledge of the origin and structure of English. Lectures on the position
of English in the Indo-European family of languages, and on the history of
the language, are also given.
Text-books.—Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader; Morris and Skeat's Specimens of Early English,
Parts I and II. For reference.—Cook's Sievers's Grammar of Old English; Earle's
Anglo-Saxon Literature; Ten Brink's Early English Literature.
Class of Modern English.—In this class the study of the later language
is pursued, and Shakspere is made a special subject of study. The critical
study of a play of Shakspere, with private reading of about one-fourth of
the plays, is followed by similar study of selected works of later authors.
Lectures on the history of the Elizabethan drama and on the history of the
later language are given.
Text bok. For 1890-'91, As You Like It (Rolfe's edition); Dowden's Shakspere Primer;
Abbott's Shaksperian Grammar; Lounsbury's History of the English Language; Burke's
Works (Payne's Clarendon Press edition). For reference.—The Globe Shakspere, Fleay's
Shakspere Manual; Keltie's British Dramatists.
Class of Rhetoric and English Literature.—In this class the principles
of Composition and Rhetoric are first studied, and then the study of
the history of English Literature is taken up. Along with study of the textbooks,
selected works of authors are assigned for private reading. Essays are
required at regular intervals. Lectures on each subject are given in connection
with the text-book.
Text bk.—Genung's Practical Elements of Rhetoric, Genung's Hand-Book of Rhetorical
Analysis; Lectures on the Anglo-Saxon and the Norman Periods; Nicoll's Landmarks
of English Literature; Ward's English Poets. For reference.—Minto's Manual of
English Prose Literature; Galton's English Prose; Saintsbury's History of Elizabethan Literature;
Gosse's History of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Each class meets twice a week, and may be attended separately; but graduation
in Rhetoric and English Literature in addition to one of the other
classes will be necessary for a diploma of graduation in the School.
N. B.—Books marked "For reference" are used at the option of the
student.
