Dryden's Essay on Epic (sic).
Pope's Satires and Epistles.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets—the Lives of Eighteenth-Century Poets.
Goldsmith's Citizen of the World.
Burke's Thoughts on the Present Discontents.
Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge), Shelley's Adonais.[3]
The second part of the examination will be on the History of the English Language. "Candidates will be examined in Gothic (the Gospel of St. Mark), and in translation from Old English and Middle English authors not specially offered."
This is to be followed by the History of English Literature, to which portion of the Regulations the following odd clause is appended: "the examination will include the History of Criticism and of style in prose and verse." Last come the special subjects designed for "those who aim at a place in the First or Second Class." Six of these consist of certain prescribed periods of English Literature. The other subjects are as follows:—
(1) Old English Language and Literature down to 1150 A.D.
(2) Middle English Language and Literature, 1150-1400 A.D.