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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. Davis, Mr. Ross and Mr. Lee.
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.
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 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. Murdaugh.
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: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century
and Later: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. The Romantic poets:
Byron, Shelley, and Keats. 2. Prose from Lamb to Stevenson. 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 prerequi-
drama. 3. The modern 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. By
consent also, this course may be taken two years in succession. Conferences.
Associate Professor Hench.
English Literature D1.—1.The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. 2.
Johnson and his Circle. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf. (Omitted
in 1924-'25).
English Literature D2.— 1. Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic): Spenser
and his contemporaries. 2. Seventeeth-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 English Comic Tradition: English A1 or A2 or A3
prerequisite.—1. Chaucer and mediaeval humor: The Canterbury Tales and
other literature from the middle ages. 2. Shakespeare's Comedies. 3.
Certain Restoration and eighteenth-century comedies and novels. Lectures,
collateral reading, and the study of the texts. In the literature of the
mediaeval period some works will be read in the original and some in translation.—
(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. Special kinds of writing; application of the principles studied
thus far to more specialized writing; descriptive narratives, reviews, and
the special article.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor
Hench and Mr. Davis.
English C1: The Novel: Any two 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.
English D1.—Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson. (Omitted in 1924-'5.)
English D2.—Shakespeare and his Times. Hours by appointment. Professor
Wilson.
English D3.—(1) Old English: The Cynewulf poems. (2) Early English
metrical romances. Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson. (Given
upon application of four or more graduate students.)
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