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GRADUATE COURSES.
M. A.
To this class will be admitted such students as have
finished the B. A. course here, or have had such training
here or elsewhere as to warrant the belief that they would
pursue the course with profit. But, because of the written
work required in each class, the professor strongly advises
young men not to undertake to pursue the B. A. and M. A.
courses both during the same session.
M. A. COURSE.
In this course there will be occasional lectures, but in
general the exercises of the class will be conducted by questions,
conversation, and conference. Readings will be
assigned, independent investigation insisted upon, and written
reports required from time to time. The students will
them orally or in writing. References for each author,
period, or subject studied will be given, and the free use of
the library in this and all courses is cordially recommended.
COURSES HERETOFORE OFFERED.
I. Representative Writers of English Prose.
II. History of Lyric Poetry from 1560 to 1800.
III. British Essayists from Bacon to Burke.
IV. Victorian and American Poets.
V. Tennyson, the Representative Poet of the Nineteenth
Century.VI. The British Essay in the Nineteenth Century.
COURSES ANNOUNCED FOR 1897-98.
VII. Shakespeare, as a Dramatic Artist.
This course is intended (a) to trace the development of
Shakespeare's literary powers and (b) to inculcate a full and
reverential appreciation of his mind and art. His minor
poems—particularly the Sonnets—will be studied in so far
as they throw light upon his development, reveal the influences
active in his work, or mark the stages of his progress,
but the main effort of the class will be directed to a
careful analysis of the dramatic structure of the plays and
to the full comprehension and enjoyment of these masterpieces.
The plays examined in class will be:
1. Love's Labor's Lost; 2. A Midsummer Night's
Dream; 3. Richard III; 4. Romeo and Juliet; 5. King
John; 6. The Merchant of Venice; 7. Henry V; 8. As
You Like It; 9. Julius Cæsar; 10. Hamlet; 11. Measure
for Measure; 12. Othello; 13. King Lear; 14. The
Tempest; 15. The Winter's Tale.
The remaining plays will from time to time be assigned
for parallel reading.
Text-Books. Dowden's Shakespeare Primer; Globe edition of Shakspeare's
Complete Works (Macmillan & Co.). In addition, for the plays
studied in class single annotated volumes are strongly recommended.
VI. The British Essay in the Nineteenth Century;
illustrated by the study of, 1. The Edinburgh Reviewers
(Jeffrey, Smith, and Brougham); 2. The Blackwood Reviewers
(Wilson and Lockhart); 3. Lamb; 4. Hazlitt; 5. Hunt;
6. Landor; 7. DeQuincey; 8. Macaulay; 9. Bagehot;
10. Sir Arthur Helps; 11. Carlyle; 12. Newman; 13.
Matthew Arnold; 14. Pater; 15. Ruskin.
Essays and Dissertation.—As an essential part of this
course there will be required two critical essays and a dissertation.
The essays, due October 22, and December 15,
respectively, will treat some literary theme, not necessarily
growing out of the class work, though to such theme preference
will be given. The dissertation must show independent
and original investigation of some theme selected
with the professor's approval, and the subject of this dissertation
must be recorded by the professor on or before January
15, 1898. The dissertation itself is due on or before
May 15, 1898.
PH. D.
This course will be, in some measure, adapted to the
needs of the students desiring to pursue it. Its purposes
will be to cultivate more fully the love of letters, to encourage
independent and scholarly research, and to further the
art of literary expression. It will include the study of some
writer, or school of writers, or of some period or movement
of literature, and will take into consideration the
political, social and literary characteristics of the time under
discussion.
The course begun in September, 1896, comprises the
investigation of the origin, growth, influence, etc., of English
literary criticism.
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