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...undergraduate literature courses will require essays at the end of this term in place of final exams, the professors have told their respective classes. Comp Lit 166, taught by Albert J. Guerard, professor of English, and English 163, taught by Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, will break precedent by omitting exams this January...
...Harvard he "belonged to the Pudding but never went there"; studied with Kenneth Kempton and Albert Guerard; and anticipated a couple of currently-fashionable trends by taking a leave of absence and then coming back to live outside his House...
English 7 does look at the major American names, and Howard Mumford Jones's course has a comprehensive syllabus. And there are American authors in Brower's modern poetry course, Chapman's 160 and Guerard's Comp. Lit. But the college just does not have solid coverage of the whole field of American literature. Except for Lynn's two conference-group half courses, there are no intensive studies of particular periods of American writing, and there is none at all of the dovetailing-dates historical blanketing of the subject that every British period is treated...
Conrad has a pronounced socio-political ideology. It is never absent from the novels, but it is stronger in these three than elsewhere. Guerard, despite "my sympathy with the political vision" of Nostromo seems less interested in ideology than in the other components of novels. This is a great pity much of Conrad's ideology, for that brand of illiberalism is not going to find many commentators sympathetic enough to do it justice...
Finally, the book has two general merits which are worth special mention, especially since it is difficult to cite most the merits of a book of this kind except with an empty summary. Guerard writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope it sets an example that will be widely followed. Second, he is occasionally willing to summarize; this is an even rare and more useful quality, since it requires more courage than the average academician can muster...