Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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20 ADELPHI COLLEGE. COURSES OF STUDY. Department of English Literature. 1. ORIGINS or MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE: Poetry and prose of Eng- land from the fourteenth century to the Elizabethan age, with special atten- tion to the Works of Chaucer, Malory and Spenser g together with some study of the development of the language. Rhetoric and composition. References: Ten Brink's English Literature, Morley's English Writers, Skeat's Speci- mens of English Literature, Vol. IH 9 Lounsbury's English Language 5 works of the authors studied. Freshman Year, Literary Course, three hours a Week. 2. HISTORY or ENGI.IsI-I LITERATURE AND THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA: Survey of the literature trom its beginning, together with assigned collateral readings, the plays of Shakspere and his contemporaries. Essays. References : Stopford Brookes English Literature, Taine's Eng- lish Literature, Saintsbury's History of Elizabethan Literature, Ward's Eng- lish Poets, Ward's History of English Dramatic Literature, Symonds' Shakespeare's Predecessors, Rolfe's Editions of Shakespeares Plays, the Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists. Sophomore Year, Classical, Literary and Scientiic Courses, three hours a week. 3. EIGHTEENTI-I AND EARLY NINET'EENTH CENTURY LITERATURE: A criti- cal study of English literature from Pope to Keats, showing the decay of the critical school and the rise and progress of the revolutionary and transcend- ental school. Themes. References: Principally the works of the authors studied : also Gosse's History of Eighteenth Century Literature, Leslie Stephens History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Mrs. Oli- phant's Literary History of England, Dovvden's Studies in Literature, Saints- bury's History of Nineteenth Century Literature, Lives of the Authors dis- cussed in the English Men of Letter Series and in the Great Writers Series. junior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a Week. 4. VICTORIAN LITERATURE! A critical study of the Works of the chief poets and essayists of this period. Themes. References : As in the preced- ing course, the most important books are the Works of the authors them- selves: Saintsbury's History of Nineteenth Century Literature, Stedrnan's Victorian Poets, Mrs. Oliphant's The Victorian Age of English Literature, Dowden's Transcripts and Studies, Morley's English Literature. Senior Year. Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a Week. Department of English Language. 1. OLD ENC-LI-sH: A course in Old English Grammar and Translation. References: Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader, Smith's Old English Grammar, Lounsbury's English Language, Emerson's History of the English Lan-

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ADELPHI COLLEGE. 21 guage, Brooke's History of Early English Literature, Ten Brink's Early English Literature, Skeat's Etymological Dictionary. Optional, junior and Senior Years, alternating with Course 2. 2. MIDDLE ENGLISH: From Orm to Langland. References: Morris' Specimens of Early English, Part I, Morris' and Skeat's Specimens of Early English, Part II, Ten Brink's English Literature, Vol. II. Optional, junior and Senior Years, alternating with Course 1. Department of the French Language and Literature. 1. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE. Lectures: Spanish and Italian influences, rise of the French Drama, development of the French Tragedy, Comedy in France , influence of the Church. Readings from the works of Corneille, Racine, Moliere Freshman Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 2. LITERATURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Lectures: The Revolu- tion and Empire, the religious renaissance , German and Italian iniluen ces, Rornanticists and Classicists. Readings from the works of Mme. de Stael, V. Hugo, Dumas, Taine. Sophomore Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 3. LITERATURE or THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Comparative study of the literature of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Lectures: English influence, Voltaire's destructive and constructive Work , the encyclopedists , Rousseau's influence and theories of education , diffusion of the philosophical spirit. Collateral Readings. junior Year, Classical Literary Courses, three hours a Week. 4. ORIGINS OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Lectures: General viewof the Sixteenth Century, comparison of the French and Italian Renaissance, the period of the Reformation, French language in the Sixteenth Century. Readings from contemporary literature: Balzac, Guizot, Daudet, Loti. Senior Year, Classical and Literary Courses, three hours a week. Students who wish to begin French after entering College will be assigned to classes in the usual introductory work. Department of German. 1. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCHILLER AND GOETHE. Ballads, dramas CGoetz, Wallensteinl, prose works CDichtung und Warheit, der dreissig- jaehrige Kriegl. Original essays and compositions. Freshman Year, three hours a week. 2. HISTORICAL DRAMAS Cin conjunction with the work in historyl. Emilia Galotti, Kabale und Liebe, Don Carlos. Scheffel's Trompeter von Sakkingen. Original essays and compositions. Sophomore Year, three hours a Week. 3. GERMAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Lectures Cin Germany, study of German Works of reference, miscellaneous reading. Original essays and compositions. junior Year, three hours a week.