Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature
Edgar Allan Poe School of English
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.) Twenty sections.
Associate Professors H. P. Johnson, Gordon and Davis, Assistant Professor
Shepperson, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Smith, Mr. Tilghman, Mr. MacLeod,
Mr. Varner, Mr. Lee, Mr. Gravely, and Mr. Spalding.
English A2: Composition and Reading: For engineering students.—
1. Composition with frequent themes and parallel reading in scientific literature.
2. The short report and letter writing. 3. The composition of technical
papers with special reference to the long report. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3
session-hours for those who have not received credit for English A1.) Two
sections.
Mr. Vaughan.
English B1: American Poetry and Prose: English A1 prerequisite.—
1. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. 2. American Essays and longer narratives
(Novel and Drama). 3. The American Short Story. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Gordon.
English B2: Drama and Biography: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1
Shakespeare. Three tragedies studied in class and other plays assigned as parallel
reading. Written reports. 2. Shakespeare continued. Three comedies studied
in class and others read as parallel. 3. Biography in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Written reports. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Metcalf and Assistants.
English B3: Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century and Later:
English A1 or A2 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 B4: The English Comic Tradition: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1.
Chaucer and medieval 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. The literature of the medieval period will be read
in translation. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor Hench.
English B5: Drama, Essay, and Eighteenth-Century Poetry: English
A1 or A2 prerequisite.—1. Shakespeare. Several of the historical plays studied
in class and others assigned as parallel reading. Written reports. 2. The early
eighteenth-century essayists. 3. Pope and his successors. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor H. P. Johnson.
English B6: Composition: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—The course
affords the student an opportunity to practice writing under critical supervision.
Designed primarily for those having some interest and ability in writing, it does not
exclude those who desire to overcome their disabilities in expression. Weekly
themes vary from simple exposition and description to the finished essay and
short story. Considerable parallel reading, with the writing of reviews, is called
for throughout the year. Scope is left for individual preference in the choice of
reading and in the types of writing. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Two sections.
Associate Professor Davis, Assistant Professor Shepperson, and Mr.
MacLeod.
English B7: Three Eminent Victorians and Their Times, with side
Glances at Certain of Their Contemporaries. 1. Alfred Tennyson. 2. Matthew
Arnold. 3. A. C. Swinburne. Following a thorough consideration of these and
other Victorians, an attempt will be made to revalue their work in the light
of recent twentieth-century criticism of the Victorian Age. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English B8: Introduction to the English Language: English A1 or A2
prerequisite.—1. The Nature and Structure of Language, with special attention
to (a) Language and Writing, (b) Language and Thought, (c) the Changes
which affect Languages. 2. The early history of the English Language, with
special attention to relations between the various stages of the English Language
and cultural history, and to the development of sounds and grammar. 3. The
recent history of the English Language, with special attention to the differences
between colloquial and formal written English. Lectures, recitations, and discussions,
supplemented by exercises in word study, the study of Old and Middle
English with the aid of translations. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Hill.
The following courses are for graduates and advanced undergraduates.
English C1: The Novel: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The early English novel and its background.
2. The later nineteenth-century novel. 3. The contemporary English
novel.
Professor Wilson.
English C2: The Drama, Elizabethan and Modern: Any two B courses
in the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—1. The Elizabethan
drama (exclusive of Shakespeare). 2. Restoration and eighteenth-century
drama. 3. The modern British drama.
Associate Professor Gordon.
English C3: Literature and Thought in England, 1789-1832 (Romantic
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is
presumed, but is not prerequisite. English literature of the earlier 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.
Associate Professor Davis.
English C4: Literature and Thought in England, 1832-1900 (Victorian
Period): Any two B courses in the Schools of English Language and Literature
prerequisite.—Some acquaintance with the course of English history is presumed,
but is not prerequisite. English literature of the middle and later 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. (Not
offered in 1932-33.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English C5: Chaucer: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—A study of Chaucer's writings and background.
Professor Hench.
English C6: Literary Composition: English B6 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 Gordon.
English C7: 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.
Professor Hench.
English C8: Middle English: Any two B courses in the Schools of English
Language and Literature prerequisite.—Readings, in the original, in romances,
tales, religious works, satires, and other types of literature in England
in the Middle Ages, exclusive of Chaucer. (Not offered in 1932-33.)
Professor Hench.
English C9: Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction: Any two B courses in
the Schools of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Eighteenth-Century
Novel with considerable parallel reading and frequent reports. Beginning
with Richardson the development of the novel is traced through the century. The
beginnings of the novel in English are traced from earliest times through the
eighteenth century.
Assistant Professor Shepperson.
English C10: The History of the English Language: English B8 and
one other B course prerequisite.—A reading knowledge of Old English is
desirable. 1. Old English: its development and dialects. 2. Middle English:
its development and dialects. 3. Modern English: standard written English,
standard spoken English, dialects, recent developments and tendencies. Lectures,
reading of texts with interpretations of forms and constructions. Hours
by appointment.
Associate Professor Hill.
English C11: Middle English: Two B courses prerequisite.—English
writers in prose and verse from 1150 to the end of the fourteenth century. This
course is designed primarily to give a reading knowledge of Middle English by a
chronological study of some of the chief texts exclusive of Chaucer.
Associate Professor Hill.
The following courses are for advanced graduate students.
English D1: 1. Edgar Allan Poe. 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hours by
appointment. (Not offered in 1932-33.)
Professor Wilson.
English D2: 1. The Early English Drama. 2. Elizabethan Prose.
Hours by appointment. (Not offered in 1932-33.)
Professor Metcalf.
English D3: Shakespeare and his Times. Hours by appointment.
Professor Wilson.
English D4: 1. Spenser and his Age: Studies in non-dramatic Elizabethan
poetry. Some knowledge of Italian is desirable. 2. Milton and his
Age. Hours by appointment.
Professor Metcalf.
English D5: The Renaissance in England: 1. A study of some of the
persons and movements on the continent contributing to the renaissance in England.
2. Studies in the literature and thought of England in the fifteenth and
early sixteenth centuries. Hours by appointment.
Professor Hench.
English D6: Chaucer Seminar: English C5, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—The complete works of Chaucer, with the exception of the prose, will
be read, with special attention to literary, bibliographical and historical problems.
Each student will be expected to give a term paper involving some research
during the third term. The course will be divided as follows: 1. The
Canterbury Tales. 2. Troilus and Cressida. 3. The Minor Poems. Hours by
appointment. (Not offered in 1932-33.)
Associate Professor Hill.
Germanics D1: Gothic: Open to Graduate Students in English.—One
hour a week, Monday, Wednesday, or Friday afternoon, by appointment.
Associate Professor Wood.
Germanics D2: 1. Old Norse: Open to Graduate Students in English.—
One hour a week, Tuesday or Thursday afternoon, by appointment. 2. Introduction
to Comparative Linguistics. Two hours a week, by appointment.
Associate Professor Wood.
Note: Candidates for Masters' degrees in English are required to take
one of the following session-courses: English C5, C7, C8, C10, C11.
Candidates for the Ph. D. must have English C7 and such other courses in
language and literature as their major professors advise.
Preliminary Examination for the Doctorate in English: A student who
desires to become a candidate for the Doctor's degree in English should stand a
preliminary examination in October of the session preceding his final year of
candidacy, and must take this examination not later than October 1 of his last year.
The examination may be written or oral, or both, at the discretion of the
examiners. In case the examination is not satisfactory, the applicant may be
allowed, by permission of the examiners, to present himself for a second trial
after a lapse of at least one academic term. If this second trial is unsatisfactory,
no further examination will be allowed. At the discretion of the professors
concerned, in the case of a student who has received the Master's degree from
this institution, an exceptionally high rating on the work for that degree, including
the oral examination and thesis, may be accepted as the equivalent of the preliminary
examination for the doctorate.
