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20 ADELPHI COLLEGE. COURSES OF STUDY. Department of English Literature. 1. Origins of 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 ; 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. Ill; Lounsbury’sEnglish Language; works of the authors studied. Freshman Year, Literary Course, three hours a week. 2. History of English Literature and the Elizabethan Drama : Survey of the literature from its beginning, together with assigned collateral readings; the plays of Shakspere and his contemporaries. Essays. References : Stopford Brooke’s 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 Shakespeare’s Plays, the Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists. Sophomore Year, Classical, Literary and Scientific Courses, three hours a week. 3. Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth 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 Stephen’s History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Mrs. Oli- phant’s Literary History of England, Dowden’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, Stedman’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 English: 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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