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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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124 UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS. opment; he then supplements his own inferences by the opinions of the best critics, and writes one paper upon each of the great periods of modern English literature. The historical outline is made and entered in a note book, as in the case of American authors. Hale's Longer Eivglish Poems; Garnett's English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria. Winter and spring terms, 5 hours a week. Professor BUTLEK. Required: English Literature, 1. 3. English Classics (Prose).—The first term of the sophomore year is occupied with the study of English prose masterpieces. The list of authors selected varies with each year. The work of the last term in this subject consisted of a study of Edmund Burke, Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship, and Bacon's Essays. The purpose of this study is to bring the mind of the student into contact with specimens of the best thought and sentiment embodied in English prose that he may learn how to get out of such productions what they have for him, and that he may develop a taste for this kind of study, such as will insure his voluntary continuance of it in the future. The student is also led to consider what a given author represents in the world of thought and sentiment, why one should read his works, and on what his claim to permanence rests. Fa.ll term, 5 hours a week. Professor BUTLER. Required: English Literature, i, 2. i. English Classics (Verse).—In the second term of the sophomore year a study is made of English poetry of the nineteenth century, as represented by Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning. Rolfe's Selections are used, and the student's judgment, based on careful study of the poems, is afterwards confirmed or corrected by a study of the best critical estimates of these writers, by such men as DeQuincy, Lowell, Principal Shairp, Matthew Arnold, and Edward Dowden. Thus a very useful acquaintance is incidentally formed with the valuable literature of general criticism and interpretation, though this is kept subordinate and subsequent to the study of the text itself. Rolfe's Selections. Winter term, 5 hours a week. Professor BUTLEB. Required: English Literature, 1, 2, 3. 5. Shakspere.—The sophomores study Shakspere during the third term. One tragedy, one comedy, and one historical play con stitute the term's work. Familiar lectures are given upon the
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