11-1. ENGLISH PART I

ENGLISH

The poetry for study will be selected from the following: Chaucer,

The Canterbury Tales (Everyman,

ed. Cawley); * Donne,

Poems

(Penguin);

Auden & Pearson (eds. ),

Poets of the English Language,

vols. 2, 3, and 4 (Viking);

*Three Modern Poets-Hopkins, Yeats and Eliot

(M .P. Book- room ); Alvarez ( ed. ),

The New Poetry

( rev. ed. Penguin).

2. Fiction:

a study of its possibilities. This could involve considering such questions as, for example: What is a novel—or what may it be? How far should the novel reflect and/or criticise society? What is "character" and how important is it in the novel? How important are form and style in the novel? How can we estimate different sorts of novels?—etc., etc.

The works for study can be selected from among the following: Homer,

The Odyssey

(Penguin).

The Book of Job

(in the Authorised or Revised Authorised version); Bunyan,

The Pilgrim's Progress;

^Defoe,

Moll Flanders;

Fielding,

Joseph Andrews;

Jane Austen,

Persuasion;

Hawthorne,

The Scarlet Letter;

Flaubert,

Madame Bovary;

Dickens,

Great Expectations;

George Eliot, Silas Marner; *Dostoievsky,

Crime and Punishment

(Penguin); Tolstoy,

Anna Karenin

(Penguin) : *Henry James,

The Portrait of

a

Lady

^(World's Classics); Lawrence, Soпs

and Lovers;

Joyce,

Dubliners;

*Forster, A

Passage to India;

Woolf,

To the Lighthouse;

^Faulkner,

As

I

Lay Dying;

^Koestler,

Darkness at Noon;

White,

The Tree of Man.

3. Drama:

a study of some of its possibilities. This could involve considering such questions as, for example: How important is the theatrical element in drama? Do different sorts of drama require different critical approaches?

Is there such a thing as "Tragedy"or "Comedy", or are there lust different tragedies and comedies? What is the importance of "character , form, and style in drama?—etc., etc.

The works for study can be selected from among the following:

*Aeschylus, Agamemnon ( trans. MacNeice, Faber) ; Euripides,

Electra

^{( trans.}

Vellacott, Penguin); Everyman (Everyman, ed. Cawley); Shakespeare,

Henry IV,

Parts I and II,

*Macbeth, King Lear, The Winter's Tale;

Wycherley,

The Country Wife;

Ibsen,

Rosmersholm;

Wilde,

The Importance of Being Earnest;

Shaw,

St. Joan;

Eliot,

Murder

in

the Cathedral;

O'Casey, Juno

and the Paycock;

Mayakovsky,

The Bedbug

(Penguin); *Beckett,

Waiting for Godot;

Pinter,

The Caretaker.

Reference books:

The following general references are recommended for all students intending to pursue studies in English:

Brew's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;

Harvey (ed.).

The Oxford Companion to English. Literature (4th

ed., 1967); and either

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

or

The Concise Oxford Dictionary.

ESSAY WORK

Students are reqquired to submit written work, details of which will be prescribed in tutorials during the year. Written and tutorial work will be taken into account at the examination. Students who fail to submit the required exercises and essays by the due dates may not be given credit for the course.

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.

1.—Uncommon Common Sense.

(Cheshire.) Cowers,

E.—The Complete Plain Words. (Penguin. )

Potter, S.—Our

Language. ( Penguin. )

Vallins, C:

H.—Good English: How to Write It. (Pan

^Books.) Vallins, C.

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.)

Macaulay, T.

B. Essays.

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

Huxley, T.

Н.—Selections

from

the Essays. (ed.

A. Castell, Crofts Classics.) Shaw, Bernard—Preface to

Saint Joan.

(Penguin.)

Russell, Bertrand—In

Praise of Idleness. (Unwin

Books.) ( c) Recommended for reference:

The Cопcise Oxford Dictionary.

(5th ed.)

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionar

y.

Fowler, H. W., and F. G.—The King

', English. (O.U.P. )

Fowler, H.

W.—Modern English Usage. ( O.U.P. ),

or 2nd rev. ed. E. Cowers.

(O.U.P.)

Partridge,

E.—Usage and Abusage.

(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, fiction, and drama. The poems to be studied will be selected in class from the authors listed below.

(a) Prescribed texts:

(i) Poetry in the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries:

Davie, D. (

ed.)—The Late Augustans.

(Heinemann. )

Auden and Pearson

(eds.)—Poets of the English Language,

vols. 4 & 5

(Roman tic Poets

and

Victorian and Edwardian Poets).

(Viking Portable ed.) Blake. ( Oxford Standard Authors or Viking Portable ed.)

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

(ii) Poetry in the Twentieth Century:

Yeats, W.

В.-Selected Poetry. (St.

Martin's Library.)

[Honours students are advised to buy, instead, the

Collected Poems. (Mac- millan).]

Eliot, T.

^S.—Four Quartets. ( Faber.)

Auden, W.

Н.—Selected ^Poems.

(Penguin.)

Hope, A.

D.—Collected ^{Poems. ( A}ngus

and Robertson. ) Lowell, Robert—Selected

^Poems.

(Faber.)

( iii)

The Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Novel:

Austen—Emma.

Bronte—Wuthe

ri

ng

Heights.

Melville-2'Ioby

Dick.

Eliot,

George—Middlemarch.

James—What

Maisie Knew.

Conrad—The

Shadow-Line

and

Heart of Darkness.

Joyce—Portrait

of the Artist as a Young Man. ( Penguin.)

[Also

in The Essential Joyce. (Penguin.

) ]

Lawrence—The

Rainbow.

(iv) A

brief selection of Drama from the period:

Chekhov—Three

Sisters.

(Penguin.)

Strindberg—Miss

Julie. ( Holt Rinehart & Winston.) Brecht

—

Mother

Courage an

ď Her Children. ( Methuen. )

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(b) Other prescribed reading:

Wordsworth—Preface

to the Lyrical Ballads. (2nd

ed., Modern Library ed. of Poems.)

Coleridge-Biographia

Literaria. ( Everyman,

or selections in Modem 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.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.