Primarily for Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Course 1A in English Literature prerequisite.—Course 1B
in English is designed to lay a broad foundation for the intelligent study
of the language on both the historical (philological) and the literary side.
The opportunity is seized from the beginning to interest the student in the
history and etymology of current English words and phrases, to point him
by a general course of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and Middle English to
the gradual evolution of Modern English as we have it now, and to furnish
him with ample material for the prosecution of further study and research.
A carefully graded series of texts and text-books will lead the student
from the language of Alfred through Chaucer and the Elizabethans to the
English of Victoria. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1, Cabell Hall:
Professor Harrison, Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
