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B. A. COURSES.
Modern English.—In this class the study of the descriptive history of
the language is pursued, and Shakspere is made a special subject of study.
The critical study of a play of Shakspere, with private reading of about
one-fourth of the plays, is followed by similar study of selected works of later
authors. Lectures on the history of the Elizabethan drama are given in connection
with the study of Shakspere. Three lectures a week.
Text-Books.—Lounsbury's History of the English Language; Skeat's Primer of
English Etymology; for 1893-'94, The Winter's Tale (Rolfe's edition); Dowden's Shakspere
Primer; Abbott's Shaksperian Grammar. For Reference.—The Globe Shakspere; Fleay's
Shakspere Manual; Keltie's British Dramatists.
Rhetoric and English Literature.—In this class the principles of
Composition and Rhetoric are first studied, and then the history of English
Literature is taken up. Along with study of the text-books selected works of
authors are assigned for private reading. Essays are required at regular intervals.
Lectures on each subject are given in connection with the text-books
when deemed necessary. Three lectures a week.
Text-Books.—Genung's Practical Elements of Rhetoric; Genung's Hand-Book of
Rhetorical Analysis; Lectures on the Anglo-Saxon and the Norman Periods; Nicoll's
Landmarks of English Literature; Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature; Garnett's
Selections in English Prose; Ward's English Poets; Hawthorne and Lemmon's American
Literature. For Reference.—Saintsbury's History of Elizabethan Literature; Gosse's History
of Eighteenth Century Literature.
This is one of the B. A. courses in the School of English for 1892-'93.
The work will in future be given in the new School of English Literature..
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