The Department of English will probably offer seven new half courses next year, it was learned yesterday. Five of these stressing interconnections of the periods and genres in English Literature, appear to be in line with the Department's new policy to avoid hard and fast categories.

Four out of seven of the new courses to be offered deal with poetry; four also will be offered primarily to graduates but will be open to undergraduates as well.

English 182, "Studies in the Interpretation of Poetry" will be taught by Theodore Morrison '23, lecturer in English, during the spring term. It will consider several poets in an attempt to understand the form and content of poetry, and its relation to life, according to the course's syllabus.

Platonism to Be Studied

Another poetry course, English 284, "Platonism in English Poetry," is scheduled for the fall to be taught by Ivor A. Richards, University Professor. Its aim will be to "compare the impact achieved by translations of Plato and poetical works expressing the same idea."

Reuben A. Brower will teach English 163, "Readings in Modern British and American Poetry" in the fall while David D. Perkins '51, Instructor in English, will offer English 253, "Wordsworth, Arnold and Eliot" in the spring.

Engel to Offer Two

English 181, "Narration in the English Novel," and English 279, "Dreiser," both of which will be offered in the Spring, will be taught by Monroe Engel '42, assistant professor of English, and M. Arnavon, professor of English at the University of Dakar, respectively.

English 223, "Religious Backgrounds of Sixteenth Century Literature," will deal with the influence of Christian Humanism and ecclesiastical politics, as expressed between More and Donne. It will be taught by Herschel C. Baker, professor of English, in the Spring.