Chapter I: English Authors

Candidates will be examined in the following texts:--

_Beowulf._

The texts printed in Sweet's _Anglo-Saxon Reader_.

_King Horn._

_Havelok._

Laurence Minot.

_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight._

Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, the _Prologue_ and the following
Tales:--

_The Knight's_, _The Man of Law's_, _The Prioress's_, _Sir
Thopas_, _The Monk's_, _The Nun's Priest's_, _The Pardoner's_,
_The Clerk's_, _The Squire's_, _The Second Nun's_, _The Canon's
Yeoman's_

_Piers Plowman_, the _Prologue_ and first seven _passus_ (text
B).

Shakespeare, with a special study of the following Plays:
_Midsummer Night's Dream_, _King John,_ _Much Ado about
Nothing_, _Macbeth_, _Cymbeline_.

Milton, with a special study of _Paradise Lost_.

These texts are to be studied (1) with reference to the forms of the language; (2) as examples of literature; and (3) in their relation to the history and thought of the period to which they belong.

After Milton no special texts are prescribed, but Candidates are expected to show an adequate knowledge of the chief authors.