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SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature.

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 or A4.)
Ten sections. Associate Professor Johnson, Dr. Gordon, Mr. Cline, Mr. Rogers,
Mr. Warthen.

English A2: Composition and American Literature.—1. Composition,
with weekly themes and parallel readings. 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 or
A4.) Three sections. Dr. Gordon and Mr. Cline.

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 or A4.) Two sections.
Associate Professor Johnson and Assistants.

English A4: Composition and Literature.—For students needing further
drill in the essentials of writing. Second and Third terms only.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 2 session-hours for those who have not received corresponding credit in
English A1 or A2 or A3.) Mr. Cline and Assistants.

English Literature B1: Drama, Essay, Short Story: English A1 or
A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several plays studied in class and
twelve others assigned as parallel. Written analyses. 2. Eighteenth-century essayists:
Swift, Addison, Johnson, Burke. Parallel reading and written reports.
3. Modern prose fiction: 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 Instructors.

English Literature B2: Nineteenth Century Poetry and Prose: English
A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Victorian poetry: Tennyson and Browning.
2. Victorian prose: the essayists. 3. Contemporary poets and novelists.
Parallel reading and frequent papers.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Metcalf and Professor Wilson.

For Graduates and Advanced Undergraduates.

English Literature C1: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any
two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature, prerequisite.
—1. The chief Elizabethan dramatists (except Shakespeare). 2. Shakespeare
(all the plays). 3. The modern drama.—Professor Metcalf and Professor Wilson.

English Literature C2: Literary Composition: English B3 and one other
B course prerequisite. This course is open only to those of proved aptitude in
original 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.
Conferences.—Professor —.

For Graduates Only.

English Literature D1.—The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. The
English romantic movement in poetry.—Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.
(Omitted in 1922-'23.)

English Literature D2.—Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic): Spenser
and his contemporaries. Seventeenth-century literature: Milton and Dryden.—
Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.

Edgar Allan Poe School of English.

English B1: American Poetry and Prose: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. American essays and orations. 2. American poetry, with a
study of verse forms. 3. American prose narratives, 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 poems with a study
of the origin and growth of the English language. 2. Elizabethan English:
a study of the language of several of the plays of 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 B3: Composition: English A2 or A1 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 clear reports and narratives. 3. The Special
Article; with exercises in writing news stories and reviews.—(B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor —.

For Graduates and Advanced Undergraduates.

English C1: The Novel and the American Drama: 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 American
drama. Professor Wilson and Professor Metcalf.

English C2: Old English and Middle English: Any two B courses in
the Schools of English Language and Literature, prerequisite.—1. Old English
prose. 2. Old English poetry: Beowulf. 3. Middle English prose and poetry.
Professor Wilson and Professor Metcalf.

For Graduates Only.

One of the following courses will be given each year:

English D1.—Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson.

English D2.—Old English Epic: Beowulf or the Cynewulf poems. Early
English metrical romances. Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson.