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3 year English majors and minors
-final grades-
! Only those students who have obtained a grade for both mid-term and final exam
will have a final grade for the course that will be indexed at the Secretary’s office.
Some of you have not written anything on the mid-term topic, which counts as no
mid-term. Some have shown up only for the mid-term, but not for the final, or vice-
versa. Those who do not have a final grade because of this reason will be indexed
‘absent’ and can take the exam again in fall (September) !
Nota bene!
The Raven, though also quite gloomy and depressing, is a poem by E.A. Poe,
not T.S. Eliot.
A person who writes poems is called a ‘poet’, not a ‘poetry’.
‘Victorian’, even though an adjective, is capitalized, just as American,
English, European, etc.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Clare are important Victorian poets,
but neither of them is, as many of you wrote, ‘the most prominent Victorian
(or even English!) poet’.
‘Sensitivity’ is the English equivalent for the Romanian ‘sensibilitate’, while
‘sensibility’ is translated by ‘ratiune’ in Romanian.
A person of female gender is referred to by the pronoun ‘she’, a male person
by the pronoun ‘he’. The respective possessive pronouns are ‘her’ for female,
and ‘his’ for male. I understand that the modern world has blurred gender
barriers to a confusing extent, however, until grammar doesn’t decide to
keep up with ‘modernity’ we’ll have to stick with the above conventions.
The last time I looked the poet up, his name was John Clare, not John Crane
(anyway, the name was written down on the blackboard, too, if my memory
doesn’t fail me – nu se aude bine-n casca, bat-o vina…). Crane is an
American Naturalist 20th century writer.