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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, Buke;

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.