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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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