FIRST PAPER.

1. Taine calls the Revival of Literature in England a Pagan Renaissance. Why does he call it Pagan?

2. Classify according to Gervinus' classification the following plays of Shakespeare: King Lear, Richard III., Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Tempest, Titus and Andronicus.

3. Compare the Literary characteristics of the Elizabethan and the Stuart periods.

4. What is the moral idea of life which Shakespeare developes in his comedies and his tragedies?

5. Schlegel says that Shakespeare's plays are so trustworthy that the truths of history may be learned from them. Criticise this assertion.

6. While Milton's sympathies were with the Puritans his tastes naturally inclined him to the Royalists. Criticise this, and give any proof of your views.

7. Show that Wordsworth's poetry is a virtual protest against the spontaneous or natural poetry of Scott.

8. Explain the following expressions taken from King Lear, the Merchant of Venice, and from L'Allegro and Il Penseroso :

The vines of France and milk of Burgundy

Strive to be interess'd."

"I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you; draw, you cullionly barber-monger, draw."

You take vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of her father; draw, you rogue, or i'll so carbonado your shanks"

The wrathful skies

Gallow the very wanderers of the dark

And make them keep their caves."

Keep out; che vore ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder."

(King Lear.)

Then do but say to me what I shall do That in your knowledge may by me be done And I am prest unto it."

"I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old."

In such a night

Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls
And sigh'd his soul towards the Grecian tents
Where Cressid lay that night."

"In such a night

Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
And saw the lion's shadow ere himself
And ran dismay'd away."

In such a night

Senior English.

SECOND PAPER.

1. Quote Bassanio's soliloquy before the caskets, beginning:

"So may the outward shows beleast themselves,

The world is still deceived with ornament."

2. Write an Essay on any of the following subjects: (a) The excellencies and the defects of the Classical School of Poetry, and the influences which produced it.

(b) The growth of the Romantic School, and its chief features.

(c) Tennyson's Poetry.