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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, Assistant Professor
Gordon, Mr. Warthen, and Mr. Ross.
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 or A4.) Three sections. Assistant Professor Gordon and Mr. McCardell.
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 A3.) Two
sections. Associate Professor Johnson and Mr. Ross.
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. Ross.
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 reading. 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 Wilson and Instructors.
English Literature C1: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two
B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1.
British 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
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. Associate Professor Hench.
English Literature D1.—The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. The
English romantic movement in poetry. Hours by appointment. Professor
Metcalf. (Omitted in 1923-'24.)
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.) Associate Professor
Johnson.
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.) Associate Professor Hench.
English B3: 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 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.) Associate Professor
Hench.
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 novel. 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. Associate Professor Hench.
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.—Shakespeare and his Times. Hours by appointment. Professor
Wilson.
English D3.—Old English Epic: Beowulf or the Cynewulf poems.
Early English metrical romances. Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson.
(Given upon application of five or more graduate students.)
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