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 Cœsar, Macbeth, 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.)
