Course Outline
Major trends in essay writing–19thand 20thcenturies.
Unit I:
Charles Lamb: “Dream Children”[Detailed].
“Old China”[Non-Detailed].
Hazzlitt “On Familiar Style”[Detailed].
Leigh Hunt: “Getting up on Cold Mornings”[NonDetailed].
Unit II:
John Ruskin:”On Books and Reading”[Detailed].
R.L.Stevenson:”An Apology for Idlers”[Detailed].
AG Gardiner:”On Saying Please”[Non-Detailed].
Stephen Leacock: “My Lost Dollar”[Non-Detailed].
Unit III:
Robert Lynd:”In Praise of Mistakes”[Detailed].
GK Chesterton: “The Worship of the Wealthy”[Detailed].
Unit IV:
Hillaire Belloc:”A Conversation with a Cat”[Non-Detailed].
J B Priestley: “Lectures”[Non-Detailed].
Unit V:
George Orwell:”Politics and English Language”[Detailed].
George Bernard Shaw:”Spoken English and Broken English”[Detailed].