Professor of English:
Professor I. R. MAXWELL, BLitt. (Oxon), B.A.. 'LL.B.
(In charge of the department, 1967).
Robert Wallace Professor: Professor S. L. Goldberg, BLitt. (Oxon). B.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 a part of the major, but may be taken in addition to other English subjects.
Note: No books have been asterůked, as all prescribed texts are essential books which the student should If possible possess.
FACULTY o А1Тs HANDBOOK
40. ' ENGLISH PART
I
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class a week.
SYLLABUS
A study of poetry, fiction, and drama, as set out below. Students should do as much as possible of their reading for this subject before lectures begin.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed texts:
Quiller-Couch, A. (ed. )—Тh Oxford Book of Еп lich Verse.
The Oxford Book of Ballads; or Border Ballads. ( Penguin Poets.) Donne—Poems as selected in class.
Pope—Poems as selected in class. ( One-volume Twickenhani edition, or Every- man.)
Keats—Poems as selected in class. ( Oxford Standard Authors, ar Modem Library College Editions.)
Eliot, T.
S.—Collected
Poems 1909-1962. (Faber.)The poems set for special study will be found, along with some introductory information, in the departmental anthology, Three Modem Poets (Univer- sity Bookroom ).
Scott—The Heart of Midlothian.
Hawthorne, N.—The Scarlet Letter. (Modern Library College Editions.) Eliot, G.—The Mill on the Floss.
Tolstoy-Anna Karenina. ( World's Classics or Penguin trans. ) Forster—A Passage to India. ( Everyman or Penguin.) Three modern novels:
Waugh, E.—Decline and Fall. (Penguin. ) Huxley, A. Brave New World. (Penguin.) Heller, J.-Catch 22. (Corgi.)
Aeschylus—Agamemnon. ( Trans. MacNeice, Faber.) Shakespeare—Henry IV ( Parts I and II) and Macbeth.
Ibsen—Rosmersholm. (Penguin.) Chekov—The Three Sisters. (Penguin.) Beckett,
S.—Waiting
for Godot. (Faber. )(b) Recommended for reference:
Legouis, E., and Cazamian, L.—History of English Literature. (Dent) Allen, W.—The English Novel. (Penguin.)
Mack, Dean, and Frost-Modern Poetry. (Prentice-Hall.)
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.
44. RHEТORIC
A course of two lectures a week, with tutorial classes. This course is intended for Arts students, for students in the faculty of Applied Science, and for students in the diploma in Journalism course; it may be taken by students in other faculties.
SYLLABUS
A study of the technique and style of English prose, linked with a study of the practical problems of English expression.
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BOOKS
(а) Recommended for preliminary reading: . Dow, G. M.—Uncommon Common Sense. (Cheshire.) Cowers, E.—The Complete Plain Words. (Penguin.) Potter, S.—Our Language. ( Репguп. )
Vallins, G. 1.—Good English: How to Write It. (Pan Books.) Vallins, G. H.-Better English. (Pan Books.)
(b) Prescribed texts:
Defoe, Swift, Johnson, Hazlitt, T. H. Huxley, 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.) Macaulay, T.
B.—Essays.
(ed., H. Trevor-Roper, Fontana Library.)Shaw, Bernard—Preface to Saint Joan. (Penguin.)
Russell, Bertrand—Selections from In Praise of Idleness. (Unwire Books.) (c) Recommended for reference:
The Concisee Oxford Dictionary. (5th ed.) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Fowler, H. W., and F. G.—The King's English. O.U.P.) Fowler, H. W.—Modern English Usage. (O.U.P. ) Partridge, E.—Usagв and Abusage. ( Hamilton. ) Carey, C. V Mind the Stop. (C.U.P.) 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.
41. ENGLISH PART II
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class a week.
SYLLABUS
A study of nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and fiction, together with either twentieth century drama or further work in twentieth century poetry. The poems to be studied will be selected in class from the authors listed below.
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.
(a) Compulsory section.
(i) Prescribed texts:
Auden and Pearson
(eds.)—Restoration
and Augustan Poets. (Viking Portable ed..)Blake ( Oxford Standard Authors or Viking Portable ed.).
Coleridge (Modem Library).
Wordsworth ( Modern Library).
English Poetry in the 19th Century: Romantic and Victorian Poetry, ed. Frost ( Prentice-Hall. ).
Yeats, W. B.—Selected Poetry. (St. Martin's Library.)
( Honours students are advised to buy, instead, the Collected Poems, Mac- millan.)
Eliot, T. S.—Four Quartets.
Austen, Jane—Emma. ( World's Classics or Penguin.) Dickens, Charles—Dombey and Son.
Brontë, Emily—Wuthering Heights. (Penguin.) Eliot, George—Middlemarch.
James, Henry—Portrait of a Lady.
FACцLTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK
Conrad, Joseph-Nostromo.
Joyce, James—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ( Pengutn. ) ( Also in The Essential Joyce, Penguin.)
Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow.
Melville, 1. Moby Dick. ( Modern Library. ) (ii) Other prescribed reading:
Wordsworth—Preface to the Lyrical BalØ. (2nd ed., Modern Library ed. of Poems. )
Coleridge—Biographic Literaria. ( Modern Library ed. of Poems. )
Arnold, Matthew—Critical works in The Portable Matthew Arnold. (Viking Press.)
Eliot, T. S.—Selected Prose. (Peregrine.) ( b ) Optional section—EITHER:
(í) Twentieth century drama. Texts for study are:
Shaw—Heartbreak нousе. (Penguin.)
Pirandello—Six Characters in Search of an Author.
O'Casey—Juno and the Рауcock.
O'Neill—Long Day's Journey into Night. ( Alfred Knopf or Random House.) Miller—The Crucible. (Cresset.)
or (ii) Further work on twentieth century poetry. Texts for study are:
Auden, W. Н.—Sеlеctед Poems. (Penguin.) Thomas, Dylan-Collected Poems. (Dent.)
Hope, A. D.—Collected Poems. (Angus and Robertson.)
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 (a.ii) 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- tun. 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.
42. ENGLISH PART III
A course of three lectures and one tutorial class a week. (Students who have passed in English В may count a pass in English Part II as the third part of a major.) SYLLABUS
(1) A study of English poetry and prose from Chaucer to the eighteenth century.
(2) A study of drama, mainly English.
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.
(a) Compulsory section. Texts for study are:
Chaucer—The Canterbury Tales, as selected in class.
The Metaphysical Pods. ( ed., Helen Gardner.)
Shakespeare—Measure for Measure, King Lear, Twelfth Night.
Jonson—Volpone.
Webster—The White Devil.
Middleton—The Changeling.
Milton—Paradise Lost.
Pope—Poems as selected in class. (The one-volume Twickenham ed. or the Everyman. The selection in Penguin Poets is not adequate.)
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ENGLISH Swift Guшiver's Travels.
Johnson—as selected in class. (The following two will together provide a usable selection: B. H. Bronson (ed.), Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Poems and Selected Prose. ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston) plus S. C. Roberts (ed.), Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Pods. (Fontana.) )
(b ) Optional section—EITHER:
(i) Further work on 16th and 17th century poetry and prose. Texts for study are:
English Renaůsance Poetry. (ed., J. Williams. Anchor.) Spenser—аs selected in class.
Marlowe—Hero and Leander.
Dryden—as selected in class.
Bacon-Essays.
Browne—Religio Medici.
Bunyan—Pilgrim's Progress.
or ( ii) Further work on drama. Texts for study are:
Sophocles—Oedipus Rex. ( Penguin.) Euripides-The Bacchae. (Laurel.)
Everyman and Mediaeval Miracle Plays. (ed., Cawley, Everyman.) Plays to be selected.
Marl owe—Tarn burlaine.
Shàkespeаre—Love's Labour's Lost, Cоriolаnus.
Tourneur—The Revenger's Tragedy.
Wycherley—Ths Country Wife.
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.
HONOURS DEGREE
E. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ( For possible combinations with this school see p. 249)
The First Year is regarded as a preliminary year of general study. Students require the approval of the faculty of Arts before entering on their Second Year as candidates for the degree with honours. Those will normally be approved who have gained at least second class honours in English Language and Literature part L Other candi- dates who wish to continue in the honour school should interview the head of department.
A student who, without attempting honours, has passed in English part I and wishes to enter the honour school, must apply to the faculty, through the sub-dean, forermission to do so. If permission is given, the faculty will prescribe what further work he is to do.
All students are required to submit an essay at the beginning of the second term of their Fourth Year, or at such other time as is set down in the details of com- bined honours courses. This essay forms part of the final examination. The subject must be approved not later than the end of the second term of the Third Year. The essay should be from 12,000 to 15,000 words in length. It should be typewritten and double-spaced on quarto pages. A bibliography of works consulted should be appended. Work on the essay should be begun during the long vacation.
PURE ENGLISH SCHOOL
1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of English Language and Literature comprises the following subjects:
English Language and Literature part I
(2)) (3) (4) (5)
(2) (3)
FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK 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 Language and Literature