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Linden Kent Memorial School of 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 early English novel and its background.
2. The later nineteenth-century novel. 3. The contemporary English
novel.

Professor Wilson.

English C2: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two B courses
in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The Elizabethan
drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). 2. Restoration and eighteenth-century
drama. 3. The modern British drama.

Associate Professor Gordon.

English C3: Literature and Thought in England, 1789-1832 (Romantic
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is
presumed, but is not prerequisite. English literature of the earlier 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.

Associate Professor Davis.

English C4: Literature and Thought in England, 1832-1900 (Victorian
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is presumed,
but is not prerequisite. English literature of the middle and later 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. (Not
offered in 1932-33.)

Associate Professor Davis.

English C5: Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—A study of Chaucer's writings and background.

Professor Hench.

English C6: Literary Composition: English B6 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 Gordon.

English C7: 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 C8: Middle English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Readings, in the original, in romances,
tales, religious works, satires, and other types of literature in England
in the Middle Ages, exclusive of Chaucer. (Not offered in 1932-33.)

Professor Hench.

English C9: The Early English Novel: Any two B courses in the
Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Eighteenth Century
Novel with considerable parallel reading and frequent reports. The beginnings
of the novel in English are traced from earliest times through the eighteenth
century.

Assistant Professor Shepperson.

English C10: The History of the English Language: English B8 and
one other B course prerequisite.—A reading knowledge of Old English is
desirable. 1. Old English: its development and dialects. 2. Middle English:
its development and dialects. 3. Modern English: standard written English,
standard spoken English, dialects, recent developments and tendencies. Lectures,
reading of texts with interpretations of forms and constructions. Hours
by appointment.

Associate Professor Hill.

English C11: Middle English: Two B courses prerequisite.—English
writers in prose and verse from 1150 to the end of the fourteenth century. This
course is designed primarily to give a reading knowledge of Middle English by a
chronological study of some of the chief texts exclusive of Chaucer.

Associate Professor Hill.

The following courses are for advanced graduate students.

English D1: 1. Edgar Allan Poe. 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hours by
appointment. (Not offered in 1932-33.)

Professor Wilson.

English D2: 1. The Early English Drama. 2. Elizabethan Prose.
Hours by appointment. (Not offered in 1932-33.)

Professor Metcalf.

English D3: Shakespeare and his Times. Hours by appointment.

Professor Wilson.

English D4: 1. Spenser and his Age: Studies in non-dramatic Elizabethan
poetry. Some knowledge of Italian is desirable. 2. Milton and his
Age. Hours by appointment.

Professor Metcalf.

English D5: The Renaissance in England: 1. A study of some of the
persons and movements on the continent contributing to the renaissance in England.
2. Studies in the literature and thought of England in the fifteenth and
early sixteenth centuries. Hours by appointment.

Professor Hench.

English D6: Chaucer Seminar: English C5, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—The complete works of Chaucer, with the exception of the prose, will
be read, with special attention to literary, bibliographical and historical problems.
Each student will be expected to give a term paper involving some research
during the third term. The course will be divided as follows: 1. The
Canterbury Tales. 2. Troilus and Cressida. 3. The Minor Poems. Hours by
appointment. (Not offered in 1932-33.)

Associate Professor Hill.

Germanics D1: Gothic: Open to Graduate Students in English.—One
hour a week, Monday, Wednesday, or Friday afternoon, by appointment.

Associate Professor Wood.

Germanics D2: 1. Old Norse: Open to Graduate Students in English.—
One hour a week, Tuesday or Thursday afternoon, by appointment. 2. Introduction
to Comparative Linguistics. Two hours a week, by appointment.

Associate Professor Wood.

Note: Candidates for Masters' degrees in English are required to take
one of the following session-courses: English C5, C7, C8, C10, C11.
Candidates for the Ph. D. must have English C7 and such other courses in
language and literature as their major professors advise.

Preliminary Examination for the Doctorate in English: A student who
desires to become a candidate for the Doctor's degree in English should stand a
preliminary examination in October of the session preceding his final year of
candidacy, and must take this examination not later than October 1 of his last year.
The examination may be written or oral, or both, at the discretion of the
examiners. In case the examination is not satisfactory, the applicant may be
allowed, by permission of the examiners, to present himself for a second trial
after a lapse of at least one academic term. If this second trial is unsatisfactory,
no further examination will be allowed. At the discretion of the professors
concerned, in the case of a student who has received the Master's degree from
this institution, an exceptionally high rating on the work for that degree, including
the oral examination and thesis, may be accepted as the equivalent of the preliminary
examination for the doctorate.