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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. 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.