Word: chaucer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English Literature. In required Rhetoric Prof. Hill lectures on ten authors as masters of English style. He also has two half courses, given in alternate years, on the literature of the eighteenth, and of the nineteenth centuries. Professor Child, besides his two courses in Anglo-Saxon, has one in Chaucer, one in Shakespeare, and one in Bacon and Milton. The Shakespeare may be taken in two successive years, thus counting as two courses; while the Chaucer, and the Bacon and Milton are given in alternate years. This is all, and it is not as much as we have in French...
ENGLISH READINGS.Mr. Briggs will give a course of Chaucer Readings in Sever 11, on Monday evenings, beginning with...
...Scottish Ballads": "It seems strange at first sight that Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor, and America. It ought to find its way into every...
...Chaucer Readings. Mr. Briggs. Sever...
MARCH 23. MONDAY.English Readings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Man of Lawes Tale. Mr. Briggs. Sever...