B. Study.
This part of the requirement is intended as a natural and logical
continuation of the student's earlier reading, with greater stress
laid upon form and style, the exact meaning of words and phrases,
and the understanding of allusions. The books provided for study
are arranged in four groups, from each of which one selection is
to be made.
Drama.
Group 1: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; Shakespeare's Macbeth;
Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Poetry.
Group 2: Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and either Comus or
Lycidas; Tennyson's The Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, and The
Passing of Arthur; the selections from Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley
in Book IV of Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series).
Oratory.
Group 3: Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's
Speech on Copyright and Lincoln's Speech at Cooper Union; Washington's
Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration.
Essays.
Group 4: Carlyle's Essay on Burns, with a selection from Burns'
Poems; Macaulay's Life of Johnson; Emerson's Essay on Manners.
English D. History of English and American Literature. (One
unit.)
The courses outlined, in accordance with the program of most
high schools, have taken into account English, (1) as a language, (2)
as a means of expression, (3) as a literature—all so intimately connected,
however, that the proper study of each will bear indirectly
on the other two.
No student will be conditioned on English A or B.
