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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, Assistant Professor Davis, Mr. C. R. Wilson and Mr. Shepperson.

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. Mr. C. R. Wilson.

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 A4.) Associate
Professor Johnson.

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. Shepperson.

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 Assistants.

English Literature B2: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century and
Later: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Nineteenth-century poetry.
2. Prose from Lamb to Stevenson. 3. Contemporary poets and novelists.
Parallel reading and frequent papers. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.
Professor Wilson and Assistants.

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. Associate Professor Hench.

English Literature C3: Nineteenth-century Literature and Thought: Any two
B course 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. The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. 2.
Johnson and his Circle. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.
(Omitted in 1926-27.)

English Literature D2.—1. Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic): Spenser
and his contemporaries. 2. Seventeenth-century literature: Milton
and Dryden. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.