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Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature.

English A1: Composition and English Literature.—1. Composition,
with weekly themes and parallel reading. 2 and 3. Survey of English
literature with parallel reading and frequent themes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours for those who have not received credit for English A2 or
A3 or A4.) Ten sections. Associate Professor Johnson, Assistant Professor
Gordon, Mr. Warthen, and Mr. Ross.

English A2: Composition and American Literature.—1. Composition,
with weekly themes and parallel reading. 2 and 3. Survey of American
literature, with parallel reading and frequent themes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours for those who have not received credit for English A1 or
A3 or A4.) Three sections. Assistant Professor Gordon and Mr. McCardell.

English A3: Composition and Literature: For engineering students.—1
and 2. Composition, with particular attention to exposition and description.
Weekly themes. 3. Survey of nineteenth century prose literature, with
parallel reading and frequent themes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours
for those who have not received credit for English A1 or A2 or A3.) Two
sections. Associate Professor Johnson and Mr. Ross.

English A4: Composition and Literature: For students needing further
drill in the essentials of writing.—Second and third terms only.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 2 session-hours for those who have not received corresponding credit
in English A1 or A2 or A3.) Mr. Ross.

English Literature B1: Drama, Essay, Short Story: English A1 or A2
or A3 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several plays studied in class and
twelve others assigned as parallel reading. Written analyses. 2. Eighteenth-century
essayists: Swift, Addison, Johnson, Burke. Parallel reading and
written reports. 3. Modern prose fiction: Stevenson, Kipling, and the
English short story. The writing of brief sketches or stories.—(B.A. or
B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Metcalf and Instructors.

English Literature B2: Nineteenth Century Poetry and Prose: English
A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Victorian poetry: Tennyson and Browning.
2. Victorian prose: the essayists. 3. Contemporary poets and novelists.
Parallel reading and frequent papers.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Wilson and Instructors.

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. The drama in America. 3. The modern
British drama. Professor Metcalf and Professor Wilson.

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. Conferences. Associate Professor Hench.

English Literature D1.—The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. The
English romantic movement in poetry. Hours by appointment. Professor
Metcalf. (Omitted in 1923-'24.)

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