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SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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. 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. Studies in the early English Renaissance.
2. Eighteenth-century prose fiction. 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 1927-28.)

Old French C13: One hour a week throughout the year. Marie de
France and the Old French Romance. Interpretation of Old French texts. A
collegiate knowledge of modern French is essential. Professor Abbot.

This course, offered in the School of Romanic Languages, will hereafter be

required of candidates for the Ph.D. in English who are specially interested in
early English literature.

Edgar Allan Poe School of English

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. 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. 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 1927-28.)

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 studies.)

Linguistics D1.—A sound knowledge of two languages other than English
(e. g. a B1 and a B2 course as given in ancient or modern languages in this university)
essential for profitable work.—1 and 2. A general introduction to the
history and comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages. 3. Gothic,
with special reference to its relation to English. Professor Faulkner.

This course, offered in the School of Germanic Languages, will hereafter be
required, in whole or in part, of candidates for the Ph.D. degree in English who
are specially interested in Philology.

Summer Quarter 1926

English sC1-I: The Elizabethan Drama. First Term. Professor
Gaines.

English sC1-II: Milton. Second Term. Professor Ramsay.

English sC1-II: Browning's Ring and the Book. Second Term. Professor
Clarke.

English sC1-III: Modern British Drama. First Term. Professor
Clarke.

English sC1-III: English Romanticism in the Early Nineteenth Century
with special reference to Shelley and Keats. Second Term. Professor
Clarke.

English sC1-III: The Contemporary English Novel. Second Term.
Professor Ramsay.

English sC2-I: Nineteenth Century Prose. First Term. Professor
Hench.

English sC2-II: Old English—Old English Grammar and Prose Reading.
First Term. Professor Ramsay.

English sC2-III: Short Story Writing. Second Term. Professor
Ramsay.

English sC3-II: Chaucer. First Term. Professor Hench.