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SCHOOLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature.

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 optitude 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.

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.


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