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M. A.
This course is a more specialized form of the B. A. course on the
same general lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon is essential to its
profitable prosecution. The historical study of the language is pursued
in greater detail; the student's attention is concentrated on the history
and origins of English; lectures on the Poetry and Life of the
Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English receives detailed
attention, and selected works of the Elizabethan period will be examined
and studied critically.
The effort will constantly be made to make these courses in the English
Language run parallel on the linguistic side with the courses in
English Literature, so that the two may profitably be taken together.
Three times a week.
Text-Books.—First Term: Sweet's or Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader (Prose);
Morris and Skeat's Specimens, II; Skeat's Principles, I.
Second Term: Skeat's Principles, I (continued); the Student's Chaucer;
Brooke's History of Old English Literature; Professor's Lectures; Anglo-Saxon
continued (Poetry).
Third Term: Beowulf; Skeat's Principles, II; Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
(completed); Moulton's Literary Study of the Bible; Brooke (completed); The
Mermaid Series; Corson's Introduction to Shakespeare.
Note: In 1899 the M. A. class discussed once a week in the English Seminary,
second term, written reports on points connected with Chaucer's language,
vocabulary, proverbs, learning, versification, etc. During the third term the
English Bible formed the center of the Seminary work.
A piece of technical work, such as the construction of a vocabulary,
the examination of particular points in syntax or grammar, or the discussion
of a particular author, may be required of the M. A. graduate.
Parallel reading is required.
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