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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, Assistant Professor Davis, Mr. C. R. Wilson and Mr. Shepperson.

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. Mr. C. R. Wilson.

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.) Associate
Professor Johnson.

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. Shepperson.

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 Assistants.

English Literature B2: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century and
Later: English A1 or A2 or A3 prerequisite.—1. Nineteenth-century poetry.
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 Assistants.

English Literature C1: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two B
courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1.
The Elizabethan drama. 2. Restoration and eighteenth-century drama.
3. The modern British drama. Professor Metcalf, Professor Wilson, and
Assistant Professor Gordon.

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 C3: Nineteenth-century Literature and Thought: Any two
B course in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.
Some acquaintance with the course of English history in the nineteenth
century is presumed, but is not prerequisite.—English literature of the nineteenth
century studied in relation to the history, literary biography, and
thought of the period. The course will link the fields of history and literature.
Assistant Professor Davis.

English Literature D1.—1. The English Novel from Defoe to Scott. 2.
Johnson and his Circle. Hours by appointment. Professor Metcalf.
(Omitted in 1926-27.)

English Literature D2.—1. Elizabethan literature (non-dramatic): Spenser
and his contemporaries. 2. 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 poetry, with a study of verse forms. 2. American
essays and orations. 3. American prose narratives, with emphasis on the
short story. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Assistant Professor
Gordon.

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. Elizabethan literature. 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.) Assistant Professors
Gordon and Davis.

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: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. Old English prose. 2. Old English
poetry: Beowulf. 3. Beowulf. Associate Professor Hench.

English C3: Middle English; Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools
of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. Middle English prose
and verse. 2. Chaucer. 3. Chaucer. Associate Professor Hench.

English D1: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Hours by appointment. Professor Wilson. (Omitted in 1926-27.)

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.)