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Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature

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, Professor Wilson, and
Assistant Professor Gordon.

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 C3: Nineteenth-century Literature and Thought: Any two
B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.
Some acquaintance with the course of English history in the nineteenth
century is presumed, but is not prerequisite.—English literature of the 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.
Assistant Professor Davis.

English Literature D1.—1. The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. 2.
Johnson and his Circle. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.
(Omitted in 1926-27.)

English Literature D2.—1. Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic): Spenser
and his contemporaries. 2. Seventeenth-century literature: Milton
and Dryden. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.