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SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
Prof. Garnett.
Instruction in this School is given in three classes:
I. The Class of Early English.—In this class the historical and
philological study of the language is pursued, beginning with its oldest
forms, and tracing the language, by the study of specimens, through its
different periods to the formation of modern English. Lectures 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.
II. The Class of Modern English.—In this class the study of the
later language, i. e., from Chaucer, is pursued, and Shakespere is made
a special subject of study. Lectures on the later language, and on the
history of the Elizabethan drama, are given.
Text-books.—For 1886-'87, Hamlet, (Clarendon Press, or Rolfe's edition);
Dowden's Shakspere Primer; Abbott's Shaksperian Grammar; Skeat's Specimens of
English Literature, or Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale (Morris' edition). The
Globe Shakspere and Fleay's Shakspere Manual are recommended.
III. The Class of Rhetoric and English Literature.—In this
class the principles of Composition and Rhetoric are studied, followed
by the study of the history of English Literature. Essays are required
at regular intervals. Lectures on each subject are given in connection
with the text-books.
Text-Books.—A. S. Hill's Principles of Rhetoric; Morley and Tyler's Manual of
English Literature; Ward's English Poets.
Each class meets twice a week, and may be attended separately; but
graduation in I. and III., or II. and III., will be necessary for a diploma
in the School.
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