DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Robert .Wallace Professor of English:

Professor S. L. GOLDBERG, BLitt. (Oxon), B.А.

Professor of English:

Vacant.

Personal Chair in English:

Professor V. T. BUCKLEY, M.A.

ORDINARY DEGREE

(Details for the honours degree are set out at the end of this section.) Group 5

The major in English is English I, II, III. Rhetoric may not be taken as u part of the major, but may be taken in addition to other English subjects.

Note: No books have been asterisked, as all prescribed texts are essential books which the student should if possible possess.

11-1. ENGLISH PART I

Ir.

T. P. Dobson

A course of two lectures and one tutorial class a week.

SYLLABUS

An introductory study of various kinds of poetry, fiction and drama. Students should do as much as possible of their reading for this subject before lectures begin.

BOOKS

(a) Prescribed texts:

Ballads—The Oxford Book of Ballads; or Border Ballads. (Penguin Poets.) Donne—Poems as selected in class.

Pope-Poems as selected in class. (One-volume Twickenham edition, or Every

-

man.)

Hopkins—Poems and Prose. (ed., W. H. Gardner.) (Penguin.) Eliot, T. S.—Collected Poems 1909-1962.

The poems by Hopkins and Eliot set for special study will be found, along with some introductory information, in the departmental anthology, Three Modern Poets. (University Bookroom. )

Five novels of growth and discovery:

Eliot, G.—The Mill on the Floss.

Dickens—Great Expectations.

Dostoevsky—Crime and Punishment. (Penguin.) Mark Twain—Huckleberry Finn.

Conrad—Lord Jim.

Three modern novels:

Waugh,

E.—Decline

and Fall.

Huxley,

A.—Brave

New World.

Heller,

J

.

—Catch

22.

Aeschylus—Agamemnon. (Trans. MacNeice, Faber.) Shakespeare—Henry IV (Parts I and II) and Macbeth.

Miller—The Crucible.

Beckett, S.—Waiting for Godot.

(b) Recommended for reference:

Allen, W.—The English Novel. (Penguin.)

Harvey (ed.

)—The

Oxford Companion to English Literature.

ENGLISH

Legouis, E., and Cazarnian,

L.—History

of English Literature. (Dent.) Mack, Dean, and Frost—Modern Poetry. ( Prentice-Hall.)

Quiller-Couch, A.

(ed.)

—

The

Oxford Book of English Verse.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, or The Concise Oxford Dictionary ( Fifth Edition) .

ESSAY WORK

Students are required to submit the prescribed essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examination. Students who fail to submit the required essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.

No tutorial assistance can be provided for external students in this subject, but lecture notes over most of the syllabus are available. Set written work will be corrected.

EXAMINATION: Two 3-hour papers.

12. RHETORIC Mr. H. Dow

A course of two lectures a week, with tutorial classes.

SYLLABUS

A study of the technique and style of English prose, linked with a study of the practical problems of English expression.

BOOKS

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Dow, G. М

.—Unćommon

Common Sense. (Cheshire.) Cowers, E.—The Complete Plain Words. (Penguin.) Potter,

S.

—

Our

Language. ( Penguin. )

Vallins, G.

H.

—

Good

English: Ilow to Write It. (Pan Books.) Vallins, G.

H.—Better

English. (Pan Books.)

( b ) Prescribed texts:

Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Hazlitt, R. L. Stevenson and

others—Selections

in cyclostyled booklets, from English Dept. (A fee of $2 will be charged to cover this and other cyclostyled material issued during the year.)

ЛΡIacаΡulаΡy, T. В

.—Essays.

( ed., H. Trevor-Roper, Fontana Library.)

Huxley, T.

H.—Selections

from the Essays. (ed. A. Castell, Crofts Classics.) Shaw, Bernard—Preface to Saint Joan. (Penguin.)

Russell, Bertrand—In Praise of Idleness. ( Unwin Bõoks. ) (c) Recommended for reference:

The Concise Oxford Dictionary. (5th ed.) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionarij.

Fowler, II. W., and F.

G. The

King's English. (O.U.P.) Fowler, H. W.

—

Modern English Usage. (O.U.P.) Partridge,

E.—Usage

and Abшsage. ( Hamilton. ) Partridge, E.—You Have a Point There. (Hamilton.) WRITTEN WORK

Students are required to submit written work periodically throughout the year.

Written and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examination. Students who fail to submit the required written work by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

11-2. ENGLISH PART II Professor V. T. Buckley A course of two lectures and one tutorial class a week.

SYLLABUS

A study of nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and fiction. The poems to be studied will be selected in class from the authors listed below.

(a) Prescribed texts:

Auden and Pearson

(eds. )—Restoration

and Augustan

Poets.

(Viking Portable ed.)

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ed.).

Coleridge ( Modern Library) . Wordsworth ( Modern Library) .

English Poetry in the 19th Century: Romantic and Victorian Poetry, ed. Frost ( Prentice-Hall. ). Students are however strongly advised to get collected or good selected editions of Byron and Browning.

Hopkins—Poems and Prose. (Penguin.)

Yeats, W.

В.—Selected

Poetry. (St Martin's Library.) ( Honours students are advised to buy, instead, the Collected Pоеms, Macmillan.)

Eliot, T.

S.—Four

^Quartets.

Auden, W. Н.—Selected Poems. (Penguin.)

Hope, A.

D.—Collected

Poems. (Angus and Robertson.) Lowell,

R.—Selected

Poem.s. (Faber.)

Austen—Mansfield Park and Emma.

Bronte

–

.

-

Wuthering Heights.

Melville

—

Moby Dick.

Dickens

—

Great Expectations.

Eliot,

G: Middlemarch.

James—Portrait of

a

^Lady.

Conrad—The Shadow-Line and Heart of Darkness.

Joyce

—

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. (Penguin.) (Also in

The

Essential Joyce,

Penguin.)

Lawrence—The Rainbow.

(b) Other prescribed reading:

Wordsworth—Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. (2nd ed., Modern Library ed. of Poems.)

Coleridge—Biographia Literaria. (Modern Library ed. of Poems.)

Arnold, Matthew—Critical works in The Portable Matthew Arnold. (Viking Press.)

Eliot, T. S.

—

Selected Prose. (Peregrine.)

Note: Authors and works to be studied in the 18th and 19th century anthologies will be specified in class.

Critical writings in addition to those prescribed in Section (b) will be recom- mended in class.

ESSAY WORK

Students are required to submit three essays, details of which will be supplied

during the

year. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examina- tion. Students who fail to submit the required essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the subject.

No tutorial assistance can be provided for external students in this subject, but lecture notes over most of the syllabus are available. Set written work will be corrected.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

11-3. ENGLISH PART III Mr. C. Wallace-Crabbe

A course of three lectures and one tutorial class a week. ( Students who have passed

in

English B may count a pass in English Part II as the third part of a major.) SYLLABUS

(a) A study of English poetry and prose from Chaucer to the eighteenth cen- tury, together with EITHER

(b, i) Further work on drama, mainly English; OR (b,

ii)

A selection of American and Australian literature.

Students are not required formally to choose between the optional sections of the course. Details of lecture and tutorial. arrangements will be posted on the Depart- mental notice-board at the beginning of the year.

ENGLISH (a) Compulsory section. Texts for study are:

Chaucer—The

Canterbury Tales,

as selected in class.

Spenser—as selected in class.

The Metaphysical Poets. (ed.,

Helen Gardner. )

Shakespeare

—

pleasure

for Measure, King Lear, Twelfth

^{Night. -} Two seventeenth-century plays:

Jonson—Volpone.

Middleton

—

The

Changeling. - - -

*Two seventeenth-century prose works:

Bacon—Essays.

Brown

e—Religio, Medici.

(* Required reading for Honours students only.) M

ilton—Paradise Lost.

Dryden

—

Absalom

and Achitophel,

^part

I; MacFlecknoe.

Pope—as selected-in class. (The one-volume Twickenham

ed.

or the Everyman.

The selection in Penguin Poets is not adequate.) Swift—Gullicer's

Travels.

-

Johnson—as selected in class. The following two will together provide a usable selection: B. Н. Bronson (ed. ),

Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Poems and Selected Prose.

(Holt, Rinehart and Winston) plus S. C. Roberts

(ed.), Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets.

(Fontana.)

(b) Optional section-EITHER:

(i) Further work on drama. Texts for study are:

Sophodes—Antigоne. ( Penguin. )

Euripides-The

Trojan

Women. (University

of

Chicago

or Penguin.)

Everyman and I'lediaeval Miracle Plays. (ed.,

Cawley, Everyman.)

—

plays to be selected.

г" Iarlowe

—

Ta m burhżle. - ^- Ѕhakеѕреаге

—

ІащІеt,

Corio/anus.

Webster

—

The

White Devil.

-

Tourneur

—

The

Revenger's Tragedy.

Wycherley

—

The

Country Wife.

or

(ii) A selection of American and Australian literature. Texts for study are:

Mark

Twain—Huckleberry Finn.

Henry

J

цnes—The Bostonians.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

—

The

Great Gatsby.

Patrick White—The

Tree of Man.

Saul Bellow—Herzog.

Modern American poetry—as selected in class. The following two books will be required: Mack, Dean and Frost (eds.),

Modern Poetry

(Prentice-Hall) and George P. Elliott (ed.),

Fifteen 1'lodern American Poets

(Rinehart).

ESSAY WORK

Students are required to submit three essays, details of which will be supplied during the year. Essays and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examina- tion. Students who fail to submit the required essays by the due dates may not

be

given credit for the subject.

Na tutorial assistance can

be

provided for external students in this subject, but lecture notes over most of the syllabus are available. Set written work will be corrected.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

HONOURS DEGREE

E. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH _ LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

(For possible combinations with this school see p. 251)

The First Year is regarded as a p

reliminary year of general study. Before entering on their Second Year as

candidates for the degree with honours, students will require the permission of the Faculty of Arts to do so. Normally this will be

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given only to those who have gained a first or a second class honour in English Part I.

Any student who, not having been awarded a first or second class honour in English Part I wishes to enter the Honours School, must apply through the Sub-Dean to the Faculty for permission to do so. If permission is granted, the Faculty will prescribe what further work he is to do.

Any student who wishes to transfer from a Combined Honours School to the School of Pure English must apply, through the Sub-Dean, for permission from the Head of the Department of English.

Any student who wishes to repeat any course in the Honours Sćhool in English must apply, through the Sub-Dean, for permission from the Head of the Depart- ment of English.

All students who have completed the Second Year in the Honours School of English, must apply, through the Sub-Dean, for approval by the Head of the Department of English to proceed into their Third Year. Normally this will be given only to students who have gained first or second class honours in Part ii of their honours English course (or courses) and who have progressed satisfactorily in their additional subjects.

* * s

The test prescribed for English Part I ( Honours ), and the tests in Practice of Criticism for English Literature Part II and Part III, are a compulsory part of the examination in each subject. The tests in Practice of Criticism will normally take place at the end of Third Term, before the beginning of the Examination Тerrn:

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All students taking Part II of the Final Examination are required to submit a thesis by the first day of the Second Term of the year in which they are taking Part II of the Final Examination, or at such other time as is set down in the details of the Combined Honours Courses. This thesis forms part of the Final Examination.

The subject of the thesis must be approved by the Head of the Department by the end of the first week of the Third Term of the student's Third Year. Work on the thesis should begin in the long vacation.

The thesis itself should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words in length; any thesis significantly longer or shorter will not be accepted. It should be typewritten, double- spaced, on quarto paper. Two copies must be submitted.

PURE ENGLISH SCHOOL

1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of English Language and Literature comprises the following subjects:

English part I ( Honours ) English Literature parts II and III English Language parts II and III English Language and Literature part IV

in accordance with the details set out below. Candidates must take these six subjects and at least three approved additional subjects, one of which must be a language other than English. Two of these additional subjects should be chosen so as to constitute a sub-major.*

2. In their First Year, candidates will take. English part I ( Honours) and at least two additional subjects, of which one will normally be the language other than English.

In their Second Year, they will take English Literature part II, English Language part II, in which subjects they are required to be classed, and the remaining additional subject.

In their Third Year, they will take English Literature part III and English Language part III; and in their Fourth Year, English Language and Literature part IV.

3. The final examination will be held in two parts, part I at the end of the Third Year, part II at the end of the Fourth Year.

PART I

(1) Poetry and Prose from Spenser to Johnson.

(2) The 19th and 20th century Novel or Australian and American Literature.f (3) Practice of Criticism (dating). Compulsory Class Test.

(4) Middle English.

(5) Elementary Old Norse or Early English Lyric Poetry.

• Sее Approval of Course. Degree with Honours, note (VI), p. 35.

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