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Each year a substantial portion of the Summer School's teaching is done by visiting professors from other colleges and universities around the country. One such man here this summer is John J. Enck, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin...
...Enck's special field is Elizabethan literature: his Ph.D. thesis was on Ben Jonson, and his course at Harvard will be English S-123, a study of several Shakespearian plays. Dr. Enck also reads widely in modern poetry (Wallace Stevens is his favorite...
...produced Samuel Johnson, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and Keats. He does not hestitate to explain why it is that two periods many years apart should arouse similarly favorable responses. Both of the periods he prefers, the Elizabethan and the modern, are known for their experimentation with literary form. And in Dr. Enck's eye, this is a quality in literature to be desired above all others. He is one of those scholars for whom the study of literature is sometimes best described as the study of change...
...simple and brief comment he offers on Dryden (1631-1700) illustrations Dr. Enck's approach. It is better, he feels, to view Dryden in terms of the 15th century--and thus as an innovator--rather than in the light of the 19th--an era whose perspective leads us to think of Dryden almost as a literary curiosity...
...Americans Hahn, also picked for the 800 metres, has twice bettered 4.13 for the mile, which corresponds to the 1500 metre distance; Cox of Penn State has done 4.18, and Goodwin of the New York Athletic Club can do 4.20 regularly. Enck, the I. C. A. A. A. A. champion in the mile who will run here in the Knights of Columbus and Boston Athletic Association metts, and Conger and Sivack of the Illinois Athletic Club, should rate up well on the American team...