University of Virginia Library

LINDEN KENT MEMORIAL
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Professor Kent.

Mr. Rushton.

Adjunct Professor Myers.

Mr. Scott.

Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.

For Undergraduates.

A. Courses: Entrance examination, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—This course is designed to meet the needs of students preparing
directly for professional studies, and of college students who have
had a four year high school course.

Course A1: Recommended to students who have satisfied the
minimum requirements for entrance.

1. Rhetoric and Composition.—A thorough review of the principles
of rhetoric; and constant practice in composition, with special
attention to letter writing, abstract, paraphrase, and construction
of the paragraph. Text-books: Espenshade's Rhetoric; Canby's
English Prose Composition.

2. Composition and English Literature.—Description and Narration:
History of English Literature, with class and parallel reading
of prose and poetry. Text-books: Long's History of English
Literature; Manly's English Prose and English Poetry.

3. Composition and English Literature.—Exposition and Argumentation;
History of English Literature, with class and parallel
reading of prose and poetry. Parallel reading and written exercises
are required throughout the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Adjunct
Professor Myers.

Course A2: Recommended to students with good preparatory
training in English and especially those who expect to pursue further
courses in English Literature.

1. Advanced Composition.—Theory and Structure of the paragraph;
description and narration; composition of the paragraph and
of longer discourse, and investigation of standard prose. Textbooks:
Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing (Revised Edition),
other texts to be announced.

2. Composition and American Literature.—Exposition; History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and poetry.
Text-books: Trent's American Literature; Long's American
Poems. Parellel reading in prose and poetry is required.

3. Composition and American Literature.—Argumentation; History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and
poetry. Parallel reading required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Adjunct
Professor Myers.

Course B1: Course A1, or A2 or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.

1. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition with special study of
the structure of modern prose. Text-books: Lewes's Principles of
Success in Literature; Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric;
the Atlantic Monthly.

2. Description, with illustrations in poetry and prose. Narration,
with special study of the short story and the biographical
sketch.

3. Exposition, with special study of the literary essay. Textbook:
Winchester's Principles of Literary Criticism. Poetry and
Poetic Forms. Text-book: Alden's English Verse; and the Professor's
Notes. About 1,200 pages of parallel reading, 25 written
exercises, and 6 essays, two each term, will be required. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.

Course B2: One A Course, or its equivalent, prerequisite, and
A2 strongly recommended.

1. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature with closer
study of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and Bunyan.

2. Eighteenth Century Literature with the development of
prose from Defoe to Burke, and the transition from classicism to
romanticism in poetry.

3. Nineteenth Century Literature with closer study of the essayists
and the poets. Text-books will be assigned at the beginning
of each term.

About 1,500 pages of parallel reading, 25 written exercises, and
6 essays, two each term, will be required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10. Cabell Hall.
Professor Kent.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course C1:

1 and 2. Elizabethan Drama.

3. English prose masters contemporary with Milton. Adjunct
Professor Myers; or the study of British periodicals from 1700 to
1837. Professor Kent.

3. The study of British periodicals from 1700 to 1837. Professor
Kent.

For Graduates Only.

Course D1, or primary Minor.

1 and 2. The History of English Prosody. Professor Kent.

3. A comparative study of the Dramatic Monologue culminating
in Browning. Professor Smith.

For summer-school courses in English Literature, on which
college-credit will be allowed, see p. 258.

II. Public Speaking.

Adjunct Professor Paul.

For Undergraduates.

Course B1: English Literature A, or equivalent, prerequisite.—
Writing original speeches and addresses; the content and structure
of the speech of introduction, of presentation, of acceptance, of
welcome, of farewell, of the after-dinner speech, and of various
other types; the distinctive principles of oral style. Delivery of
written, original speeches; individual training in the effective use
of the voice, in platform deportment, in bearing, in the use of
gestures; principles of vocal and physical expression. Extemporaneous
speaking from outlines; impromptu speaking on topics of the
day. History of oratory from Empedocles to Bryan. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
1-2; Jefferson Hall; membership of each section limited to a
maximum of twelve and a minimum of six.

Course B2. Public Speaking B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—
Principles of argumentation and debating, including analysis of the
proposition, evidence, brief-making, and tactics of debate. Practical
debating by opposing teams that each week study a public question
and draw briefs in preparation for the debate. (B. A. or B. S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12; membership of each section limited to a maximum of eighteen
and a minimum of six.