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SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

Every student in the Schools of English Language and Literature will
be required to own an approved English dictionary. Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary and the Students' Standard Dictionary are recommended.

Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature.

English A1.—1. Advanced rhetoric and composition, with parallel
reading. 2 and 3. Survey of English literature, with parallel reading and
composition.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those who have not
received credit for Eng. A2 or A3.) Six sections. Associate Professor
Johnson, Mr. Huffman, and Mr. Gordon.

English A2.—1. Advanced composition with parallel reading. 2 and
3. Survey of American literature, with composition and parallel reading.
—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours for those who have not received
credit for Eng. A1 or A3.) Three sections. Mr. Huffman.

English A3: Specially recommended to students preparing for Engineering
or Law.—1 and 2. Advanced composition with parallel reading, with
particular attention to description, exposition, and argument. 3. Survey
of English literature with composition and parallel reading.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours for those who have not received credit for Eng.
A1 or A2.) Two sections. Associate Professor Johnson and Mr. Huffman.

English Literature B1: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare.
Several plays studied in class and twelve or fifteen others assigned
as parallel. 2. Eighteenth-century prose: Swift, Johnson, Burke;

selections from the novelists and letter-writers. 3. Recent English narrative
prose: Kipling and the short story.—In each course considerable
parallel reading and several written reports on assigned topics will be required.—(B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Metcalf and
Associate Professor Johnson.

English Literature B2: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Victorian
poetry: Tennyson and Browning. 2. Victorian prose: The essay
and the novel. 3. Contemporary prose and verse.—Parallel reading, term
papers.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor Metcalf and
Professor Wilson.

English Literature C1: The English Drama: Any two B courses in
the Schools of English Language and Literature, prerequisite: any B course in
Group V may, however, serve as one of the prerequisites.—1. The chief
Elizabethan dramatists (except Shakespeare). 2. Shakespeare. 3. Contemporary
dramatists. Professor Metcalf and Professor Wilson.

Only one of the following courses will be given in any one year:

English Literature D1.—The English novel from Defoe to Scott. The
English romantic poets. Hours by appointment Professor Metcalf.

English Literature D2.—Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic). Milton
and Dryden. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf and Professor
Wilson.

Edgar Allan Poe School of English.

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

English B2: The Development of English: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales and other selected poems,
with a study of the origin and growth of the English language. 2.
Elizabethan English: a study of the language of several plays by Shakespeare
and his contemporaries. 3. The drama of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor
Wilson and Associate Professor Johnson.

English C1: American Literary Types: Any two B courses in the
Schools of English Language and Literature, prerequisite. Biblical Literature
B2 or History C1 may also serve as one of the prerequisites.—1. American
lyric poetry. 2. The American novel. 3. The American drama. Professor
Wilson and Professor Metcalf.

English C2: Old English and Middle English. Prerequisites are the
same as for English C1.—1. Old English prose. 2. Old English poetry. 3.
Middle English prose and poetry. Professor Wilson and Associate Professor
Johnson.

Only one of the following courses will be given in any one year:

English D1.—Edgar Allan Poe. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hours by appointment.
Professor Wilson.

English D2.—Old English epic: Beowulf. Early English metrical romances.
Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson and Professor Metcalf.