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Alma College HELEN M FACULTY OF ARTS 1928·29 111 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH University College W. F. TAMBLYN, PH.D., Professor J. A. SPENCELEY, M.A., Associate Professor MRS. E. K. ALBRIGHT, M.A., Assistant Professor W. S. MILNE, M.A., Instructor MRS. JEAN T. NEVILLE, M.A., Lecturer JEAN I. WALKER, L.C.M., Lecturer DORIS LIDDICOATT, M.A., Lecturer MARION WRIGHTON, B.A., Lecturer HELEN ALLISON, B.A., Assistant Alma College HELEN M. HARDY, B.A., Instructor MAY BELLE ADAMS, B.E.L., Instructor Assumption College REV. J~ V. BURKE, B.A., Associate Professor REV. E. T. BURNS, Lecturer REV. P. J. HOWARD, M.A., Lecturer REV. B. O'DONNELL, B.A., Lecturer Ursuline College *M. M. CARMEL, M.A., Profe&,')or M. M. BONAVENTURE, M.A., Instructor M. M. ST. JAMES, M.A., Instructor Waterloo College REV. N. WILLISON, B.A., D.LITT., Professor REv. C. W. FOREMAN, B.A., Lecturer Huron College REV. T. G. WALLACE, M.A., Lecturer 10. General Literature. First Term: A.-A critical study of the following poems: Chaucer, General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, lines 1-162; 285-308; 388-444; 477-541; 751-858. Ballads, Sir Patrick Spens, Lord Randal, Hind Horn. *On leave, 1927·28. 112 UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I. Sidney, Sonnets, A strophel and Stella, X X X I and X X X IX. Shakespeare, Sonnets, XXIX, XXX, LV, LXXIII, CXI, CXVI; Songs from L.L.L., A.Y.L.I. (2), T.N. (first), Cymb. (2). England's Helicon: Rosalind's Madrigal (Lodge); The Passionate Shepherd (Marlowe). Jonson, To Celia; To Shakespeare. Donne, Love's Deity; Death. Milton, L'AUegro; Il Penseroso; Lycidas; Sonnets; How soon hath time; Avenge, 0 Lord; When I con­ sider; Cyriack, this three years' day. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel; Alexander's Feast. Pope, An Essay on Man, Book I. B.-A careful reading of the following: Langland (?), Piers the Plowman (The Prologue, A-Text). Ballads, Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. John de Trevisa, Higden's Polychronicon. Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XXI, Chapter V. Lyly, Euphues and His England. Bacon, Essays, Of Truth; Of Marriage and Single Life; Of Friendship; Of Youth and Age. Milton, Areopagitica. Pepys, His Diary (Extracts). Pope, Rape of the Lock. Addison, Essays, Aims of the SPectator; Thoughts ~n Westminster Abbey; The Vision of Mirza. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Part I. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Part I. Scott, Rob Roy. C.-An understanding of the following literary genres and metres: ballad, epic, lyric, sonnet, elegy, ode, pastoral poetry, burlesque; "ballad metre," blank verse, Spen­ serian stanza, heroic couplet. D.-A knowledge of English literary history as follows: 1. An outline of the development of English literature from Chaucer to Pope, excluding the drama. 2. An outline of the growth of the novel from Defoe to Scott. N.B.-For examination purposes the four sections-A, B, C and D-will be combined into three parts, to which marks will be assigned according to the following percentage.: Part 1. (Section A)--60 per cent. Part II. (Section B )-20 per cent. Part III. (Sections C and D)-20 per cent. FACULTY OF ARTS 1928-29 113 Second Term: A.-A critical study of the following poems: Johnson, London. Thomson, Winter, A Snow Scene; Autumn, A Storm in Harvest. Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; The Fatal Sisters. Collins, Ode to Evening. Cowper, The Task, Book V. Burns, Lines to John Lapraik; To a Mountain Daisy; Bonnie Doon; Highland Mary; Tam O'Shanter. Blake, Songs of Innocence, Introduction; The Clod and the Pebble; The Tiger; A Poison Tree; Love's Secret. Wordsworth, We are Seven; To the Cuckoo; My heart leaps up; I wandered lonely as a cloud; Sonnets: London, 1802; Composed upon Westminster Bridge; On the Sea-shore near Calais; The world is too much with us. Coleridge, Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Scott, The Lay of Rosabelle; Soldier, rest. Byron, She walks in beauty; So, we'll go no more a-roving; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Man and Nature from Canto III. Shelley, Ode to the West Wind; Final Chorus from Hellas; To Night. Keats, Ode to A utumn; Sonnets: The Grasshopper and the Cricket; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Tennyson, St. Agnes' Eve; Wages; The Higher Pantheism. Browning, My Last Duchess; My Star; Apparitions; Epilogue to Asolando. Arnold, Shakespeare; The Last Word. D. G. Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel. A. Meynell, The Shepherdess. Kipling, The Ballad of the "Bolivar." Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Brooke, The Soldier. Thomas, Fifty Faggots. B.-A careful reading of the following: Johnson, The Rambler (No. 69); Congreve. Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Chap. XIII. Wordsworth, Preface to "Lyrical Ballads." Lamb, Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist. Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes. 114 UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO Arnold, Sweetness and Light. Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Thompson, The Hound of Heaven. Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield. Dickens, Oliver Twist. Thackeray, Henry Esmond. C.-A knowledge of English literary history from Johnson to the present. N.B.-on the examination paper marks will be assigned according to the following percentages: Part I. (Section A)-60 per cent. Part II. (Section B)-20 per cent. Part III. (Section C)-20 per cent. 2 hours per week: 2 credits. Text·books: J. M. Manly, English Prose and Poetry, Revised Edition (Ginn). J. Buchan, History of English Literature (Nelson). W. J. Long, Englilk Literature (Ginn). Scott, Rob Roy (Nelson). Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (Nelson). Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (Nelson). Thackeray, Henry Esmond (Nelson, or Everyman's Library). Dickens,Oli.er Twist (Everyman's Library). References: J. W. Hales, Longer English Poems (Macmillan). W. J. Rolfe, Millon's Minor Poems. Byron. Poems (Ed. Coleridge, Scribner). Tennyson, Poems (With Author's Notes, Macmillan). Browning, Setea Poems (Ed. W. T. Young. Cambridge University Press). Browning, Selections (Ed. G. H. Clarke, Houghton-MifBin). 11. Public Speaking: in this course the aim is to show the speaker how to affect a given audience, in a given way, in a given time. The ends of speech, such as clearness, belief, impressiveness, action and entertainment, are shown as determining the selection and arrangement of material. The speech is considered objectively in the light of its effect on an audience rather than subjectively. Exercises will be given to test the speaker's ability to gather, select, arrange and present material effectively. 1 hour per week: 1 credit. Text-book: A. E. Phillips, Effecti.. SPeaking (Newton Company). 12. Composition: the mechanics of writing; essays pre­ scribed every two weeks; outside reading and conferences. Prescribed for all those in the first year General Courses. 1 hour per week: 1 credit. Text-books: Foerster and Steadman, Sentences and Thinking (Houghton-Miffi.in). Selected English Short Stories, First Series (Oxford, World's Classics, 193). Reference: H. G. Palmer, Self-CuUivalion in English (Houghton-MifBin). 20. Shakespeare and Prose Selections. FACULTY OF AltTS 1928-29 115 First term: A.-A critical study of: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II. B.-A careful reading of the following plays: Everyman. Shakespeare, Richard II, and Much Ado about Nothing. C.-A careful reading of the selections in English Prose, Vol. I (Ed. Peacock, Oxford), and Selected English Essays (Ed. Peacock, Oxford), from the following writers : Tyndale, Holinshed, North, Spenser, Raleigh, Hakluyt, Sidney, Lyly, Marlowe, Authorized Version of the Bible, Bacon, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Hobbes, Browne, Fuller. D.--Outline of the development of English drama to Shakespeare. E.-The facts of Shakespeare's life. N.B.-For examination purposes the above five sections. A. B. C. D. E. will be combined into two parts to which marks will be assigned according to the following percentages: Part I. (Section A)-75 per cent. Part II. (Sections B, C. D and E)-25 per cent. Second Term: A.-A critical study of: Shakespeare, King L~ar and Twelfth Night. B.-A careful reading of the following plays: Shakespeare, Hamlet and The Tempest. Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday. C.-A careful reading of selections from Boswell's Johnson, and of the selections in English Prose, Vols. II-III (Peacock), and Selected English Essays, from the following writers: MHton, Evelyn, Dryden, Pepys, Defoe, Swift, Addison, Richardson, Wesley, Field­ ing, Gray, Walpole, White, Adam Smith, Reynolds, Goldsmith, Burke, Gibbon, Sheridan and Frances Burney. D.--Outline of the history of English prose literature in the eighteenth century. N.B.-For examination purposes marks will be assigned according to the following percentages: Part I. (SectIon A)-75 per cent. Part II. (Sections B. C and D}-25 per cent. 116 UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO 2 hours per week: 2 credits. Text-books: New Hudson Shakespeare (Ginn) or Deighton (Macmillan). Raleigh. Shakespeare. J. Bailey. A Shorter BoS"/IJeU (Nelson). Long or Buchan. History of English Literature. References: J. D. Wilson. Life in ShakesPeare's England (Cambridge University Press). G. H. Cowling, A Pre/ace to Shakespeare (Methuen). 21. Public Speaking: a further development of effective speech and thought following the principles and methods set forth in English 11. Special attention to centering and phrasing, plans and outlines, etc., that the student may deliver extemporaneously and in a conversational way. Prerequisite: English 11. 1 hour per week: 1 credit. Text-book: Winans, Public Speaking. 22, Composition and Rhetoric: relation of material to style; essays prescribed every two weeks; outside reading and conferences. 1 hour per week: 1 credit. Text-books: French: Writing (Harcourt-Brace). Quiller-Couch, Standard Prose (Dent). Reference: Fulcher, Foundation of English Style (Crofts).
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