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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.) Sixteen sections.
Associate Professors H. P. Johnson, Gordon and Davis, Assistant Professor
Shepperson, Mr. J. L. Vaughan, Mr. Varner, Mr. Gravely, Mr. R. B.
Davis, Mr. Black, and Mr. McEwen.
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 Assistant.
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 Assistant.
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. English 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
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 and Assistant Professor Shepperson.
English B7: Ballad and Folk-song, the Ballad in Literature, and Matthew
Arnold: English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—Two terms will be devoted to
the reading and study of ballads and folk-songs, British and American, with
phonographic and other emphasis on their musical character. An introduction to
the many critical and historical problems in connection with the course of
English Literature, will lead to a study of the "literary ballad',' especially in the
nineteenth century. The third term, partly by contrast, partly as a continuation
of the study of the nineteenth century, will be devoted to Matthew Arnold. (B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Davis.
English B8: Introduction to the English and General Philology:
English A1 or A2 prerequisite.—Some knowledge of a foreign language is advisable.
1. The Nature and Structure of Language: a. origin of language. b.
elements of language including phonetics. 2. The Study of Language: the historical
method, language and cultural history, linguistic geography. 3. The History
of English: An introduction to Old English and the later development of
the language. (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 Lit-
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. (Not offered in
1935-36.)
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.
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.—Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Centuries and representative Metrical Romances.
Professor Hench.
English C9: The Early English Novel: Any two B courses in the
School of English Language and Literature prerequisite.—The Eighteenth-Century
Novel with considerable parallel reading and frequent reports. The English
Novel is 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 and its pre-history. 2. Old English Dialects. 3. Middle
English dialects to the development of a standard language. Lectures,
reading of texts with interpretation of forms and constructions. Hours by appointment.
Associate Professor Hill.
English C11: Middle English: Two B courses prerequisite.—Prose and
Middle English Didactic Poetry. Hours by appointment. (Not offered in 1935-36.)
Associate Professor Hill.
English C12: Spenser and Milton: Two B courses in English Literature
prerequisite.—1. Spenser's Minor Poems. 2. The Fairie Queene. 3. The
Poetry of Milton.
Professor Metcalf.
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