(c) "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very Heaven! O times,
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
The attraction of a country in romance!"

(d) "Or from the forest falls the cluster'd snow,
Myriads of gems, that in the waving gleam
Gay-twinkle as they scatter."

(e) "Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again),

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever
From the fair head, forever, and forever!"

(f) "I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem

In England's green and pleaasnt land."

(g) "A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay,

(h)

And o'er-informed the tenement of clay."

"Among the rocks

He went, and still looked up upon the sun,
And listened to the wind;"

(i) "Where wand'ring man, betray'd by vent'rous pride
To tread the dreary paths without a guide,
As treach'rous phantoms in the mist delude,
Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good."

(j) "Let not thy wary step advance too near,
While all thy hope hangs on a single hair."

(k) "I've measured it from side to side;

'Tis three feet long, and two feet wide."

(1) "Had we never loved so kindly,

Had we never loved so blindly,
Never met, and never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted."

5. (a) "The ideals and characteristics of the literature of any age may be largely explained by contemporary social and political conditions." Discuss this statement in relation to the poetry of the early 18th cetnury.

(b) Compare Goldsmith, Crabbe, Burns, and Wordsworth in their treatment of humble life.

6. (a) "From 1725 for almost a century the vitalizing force in English poetry came from Scotland." Discuss. (b) Discuss Wordsworth's criticism of "poetic diction."

(c) "The style is the very man himself." How far is this statement true of Addison, Dr. Johnson, Carlyle?

7. (a) Trace the change in the attitude toward Nature seen in 18th century poetry. What is Wordsworth's place as a Nature poet?

(b) What are the fundamental ideas in Carlyle's criticism of society?

PRELIMINARY HONOUR ENGLISH.

SECOND PAPER.

Write the answers to A and B in separate books. Approximately thirty-six minutes should be given to each of the five questions.

A.

1. (a) Write notes on two of the following: (1) Thackeray's cynicism; (2) Jane Austen's women; (3) Scott's account of Claverhouse; (4) Maria Edgeworth's description of Irish life.

(b) Discuss the treatment of the supernatural in (1) The Castle of Otranto, (2) The Mysteries of Udolpho, (3) Scott's novels.

B.

2. In this question answer (d) and two other parts.

(a) Describe and contrast an early and a late liturgical play.

(b) Show by examination of particular plays the difference between a dramatic and an undramatic miracle play.

(c) What causes brought the morality plays into existence? In what respects did these plays contribute to the development of the drama?

(d) Point out the dramatic and literary values of Everyman.

3. In this question answer (c) and (d) and one other part.

(a) Explain, using diagrams if necessary: (1) stationary and processional methods of staging mediaeval plays; (2) the arrangement of curtains upon the Elizabethan stage.

(b) What was the nature of the properties employed (1) in the mediaeval drama, (2) in the court drama of the sixteenth century, (3) in the public theatres of Shakespeare's day?

(c) Write notes on three of the following topics: (1) classical influence upon the English drama; (2) Marlowe as a dramatist and his influence upon Shakespeare; (3) Romantic drama; (4) the Elizabethan villain.

(d) Write briefly concerning the substance and significance of three of the following plays: (1) The Spanish Tragedy; (2) Love's Labour's Lost; (3) A Midsummer Night's Dream; (4) The Tempest.

4. In this question answer both parts fully.

(a) Discuss Shakespeare's characterization of women in the comedies written before 1601.

(b) What seems to you to be Shakespeare's view of life and of the relations of character to destiny in the four great tragedies?

5. In this question answer all three parts.

(a) How do Shakespeare's earlier and later historical plays differ?

(b) Tell in what plays each of the following characters appears, and write a few descriptive lines concerning any five: Moth, Pistol, Oliver, Shallow, Proteus, Emilia, Edgar, Tamora, Dromio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Hero, Sly, Verges, Cassio, Mercutio, Herod.

(c) Tell where any six of the following passages occur. Name the speaker and show knowledge of the circum

stances:

(1) And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.

(2) Good night, good night; parting is such sweet sorrow. (3) A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine

own.