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SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature

Edgar Allan Poe School of English

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.) Sixteen sections.

Associate Professors H. P. Johnson and Gordon, Assistant Professor
Shepperson, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Smith, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Vaughan and
Mr. Mason.

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.) Two
sections.

Mr. MacLeod.

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.) Two sections.

Associate Professor Johnson and Mr. Vaughan.

English B1: American Poetry and Prose: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1.
American poetry, with a study of verse forms. 2. American essays
and orations. 3. American prose narratives, with emphasis on the short story.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Associate Professor Gordon.

English B2: Drama, Biography, Short Story: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Three tragedies studied in class and other plays
assigned as parallel reading. Written reports. 2. Biography in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. Parallel reading and written reports. 3. 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 B3: 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 B4: The English Comic Tradition: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. Chaucer and medieval humor: The Canterbury Tales and other
literature from the middle ages. 2. Elizabethan literature. 3. Certain Restoration
and eighteenth-century comedies and novels. Lectures, collateral reading,
and the study of the texts. In the literature of the medieval period some
works will be read in the original and some in translation. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)

Professor Hench.

English B5: Drama, Essay, and Eighteenth Century Poetry: English A1
or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several of the historical plays
studied in class and others assigned as parallel reading. Written reports. 2. The
early eighteenth-century essayists. 3. The precursors of the Romantic movement,
Pope and his contemporaries. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Associate Professor Johnson.

English B6: Composition: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1.
Current usage in composition: a study of thought expression and the correct
use of English, with reading in current prose and frequent written exercises.
2. Exposition and narration: a continuation of the course in general composition,
with emphasis on the writing of class reports and narratives. 3. Special
kinds of writing: application of the principles studied thus far to more specialized
writing; descriptive narratives, reviews, and the special article. (B.A. or
B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Three sections.

Associate Professor Gordon, Assistant Professor Shepperson and Mr.
Lawrence.

English C1: The Novel: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The English novel of the nineteenth
century. 2. The American novel. 3. The contemporary British novel.

Professor Wilson and Professor Metcalf.

English C2: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two B courses
in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The Elizabethan
drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). 2. Restoration and eighteenth century
drama. 3. The modern British drama.

Professor Wilson and Associate Professor Gordon.

English C3: Literature and Thought in England, 1789-1832 (Romantic
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is
presumed, but is not prerequisite. English literature of the earlier 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. (Omitted
in 1929-30.)

Associate Professor Davis.

English C4: Literature and Thought in England, 1832-1900 (Victorian
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is presumed,
but is not prerequisite. English literature of the middle and later 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.

Associate Professor Davis.

English C5: Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—A study of Chaucer's writings and background
and something of the work of his followers. (Omitted in 1929-30.)

Professor Hench.

English C6: Literary Composition: English B6 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.

Professor Hench.

English C7: Old English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. Old English prose. 2. Old English
poetry: Beowulf. 3. Beowulf.

Professor Hench.

English C8: Middle English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Readings, in the original, in romances,
tales, religious works, satires, and other types of literature in England
in the Middle Ages, exclusive of Chaucer.

Professor Hench.

English C9: Eighteenth Century Prose Literature: Any two B courses
in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Novel and
the Essay, with considerable parallel reading and frequent reports. Beginning
with Richardson the development of the Novel is traced through the century.
The discussion of the Essay will center in Johnson and his Circle.

Assistant Professor Shepperson.

Romance C13: One hour a week throughout the year. French Literature
in the Middle Ages, with special reference to the Chanson de Roland. A collegiate
knowledge of modern French is essential.

Professor Abbot.

This course, offered in the School of Romanic Languages, is required of
candidates for the Ph.D. in English who are specially interested in early English
literature.

English D1: Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Hours by appointment.

Professor Wilson.

English D2: 1. English Literature of the later fifteenth and early sixteenth
century, with special attention to the Arthurian romances and the Drama.
2. Prose literature of the Elizabethan Age. Hours by appointment.

Professor Metcalf.

English D3: Shakespeare and his Times: Hours by appointment.
(Omitted in 1929-30.)

Professor Wilson.

English D4: 1. Spenser and his Age: Studies in non-dramatic Elizabethan
poetry. Some knowledge of Italian is desirable. 2. Milton and his Age.
Hours by appointment. (Omitted in 1929-30.)

Professor Metcalf.

Linguistics D1: A sound knowledge of two languages other than English
(e. g. a B1 and a B2 course as given in ancient or modern languages in this
university) essential for profitable work.—1 and 2. A general introduction to
the history and comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages. 3. Gothic,
with special reference to its relation to English.

Professor —.

This course, offered in the School of Germanic Languages, is required, in
whole or in part, of candidates for the Ph.D. degree in English who are specially
interested in Philology.