美國文學(xué)史及選讀表格

1、American LiteratureAgeWriterStatusForm & StyleWork（“”表重要性，表課本選文）TheLiterature of ColonialAmerica(17 th century)John Smith(1580 -1631)the first AmericanwriterA True Relation of Such Occurrences andAccidents of Note as Hath Happened in VirginiaSince the First Planting of That ColonyA Map of Virgin

2、ia: with a Description of theCountryThe General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer IslesWilliam Bradford(1590-1657)&John Winthrop(1588-1649)John Cotton(1585-1652)&Roger WilliamsOf Plymouth Plantation普利茅斯墾殖記(byW川iam Bradford)The History of New England from 1630 to 1649新英格蘭歷史：163

3、01649» (by John Winthrop)A Key into the Language of America (by RogerWilliams)(1603-1683)Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)&Edward Taylor (1642-1729)one of the most interesting of theearly poets/the best of thePuritan poetsThe Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America(byAnne Bradstreet)TheLiterature

4、of ReasonBenjaminFranklinThe Autobiography富蘭克林自傳Poor Richard ' s Almanac窮理杳年鑒本杰明富蘭克andRevolution(18 th林(1706-1790)century)Thomas PaineT he American Crisis美國危機Common Sens e常識托馬斯潘恩(1737-1809)Rights of Men 人權(quán)論The Age of Reason 理性時代Thomas Jefferson托馬斯杰斐遜The Declaration of Independence日百(1743-1826)Ph

5、ilip Freneauperhaps the most outstanding writer of thepoetry;a satirist and a sentimentalist,The British Prison Ship英國囚船post-revolutionaryThe Wild Honey Suckle 野生的金銀花菲利普弗倫諾a humanitarian but also a bitterperiod“ Father of AmericanPoetry ”polemicist;gothic moodThe Indian Burying Ground印第安人殯葬地JTo a Ca

6、ty-Did(1752-1832)TheLiteratureWashingtonIrvingThe first great prosestylist of AmericanThe Author ' s Account of HimselfThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow(included inof華盛頓.歐文Sketch Book)Romanticism(1783-1859)RomanticismSketch Book?見聞木Lt己(the first modernshortz / 八 th(19century)stories and the first grea

7、t American juvenile literature)A History of New York紐約外史James FeninoreCoopernovel;The SpyThe Pilot (the best of his sea romances)He launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the 1The Leatherstocking Tales: ( "the nearest詹姆斯費尼莫爾庫柏(1789-1851)approach yet to an American epic " )best of

8、 his sea adventure tales, and the frontier saga. The Deerslayer表 The Last of the Mohicans最后一個臭布T The Pathfinde The Pioneers The PrairierW川iam CullenBryantthe first American to gain the stature of amajor poetThanatopsis (死亡隨想廠1威廉卡倫布萊恩特|(1794-1878)poetry;naturalismTo a Waterfowhis works)l致水鳥(perhaps t

9、he peak ofEdgar Allan Poe埃德加愛poetry, novel, literarycriticismTo Hellen倫坡The Raven(1809-1849)Annabel LeeThe Fall of the House of Usher厄舍古屋的倒塌Tales of the Grotesque and ArabesqueRalph Waldo Emerson拉爾夫沃爾 多愛默生(1803-1882)essay;transcendentalism Nature Self-relianceEssaysRepresentative Men (one of his mos

10、t importantworks)English Traits (one of his most important works)Henry DavidThoreauessay;transcendentalism亨利戴維梭Walden瓦爾登湖羅(1817-1862)NathanielHawthornenovel;The Scarlet Letter紅字19世紀前半期美國最romanticism;The House of the Seven Gables納撒尼爾霍桑偉大的小說家symbolism;The Blithedale Romance(1804-1864)feminismMosses fr

11、om an Old ManseThe Marble FaunHerman Melville19世紀美國最偉大的novel;symbolism Moby-Dick白鯨小說家、散文家和詩人赫爾曼梅爾維爾(1819-1891)之一，與納撒尼爾霍桑齊名Henry WadsworthLongfellow亨利沃茲沃斯朗費羅19世紀美國最偉大的浪漫主義詩人之一poetry;romanticismA Psalm of Life人生禮贊The Slave ' s Dream My Lost YouthThe Song of Hiawatha(1807-1882)TheLiterature of Real

12、ism(19 thcentury)Walt WhitmanHe devised the poetic style which is now called free versepoetry;free verse(poetry without afixed beat or regular rhymescheme) Song of Myself I Sit and Look Out Beat! Beat! Drums!沃爾特惠特曼(1819-1892)Emily Dickinsonpoetry, half rhyme;The poemsare short, manyof them being bas

13、ed on a single image or symbol.Her works express a desire to I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed I Felt a Funeral, in My BrainA Bird Came down the Walk I Died for Beauty But Was Scarce艾米莉狄金森(1830-1886)separate herself from the world. I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died Because I Could Not Stop for DeathHarriet

14、 BeecherStowe哈麗葉特比切斯托(1811-1896)novel Uncle Tom' s CabinMark Twain馬克吐溫novel;He combined his writing withpublic lecturing and foreignThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer湯姆索亞歷險J- 1 一 J1記Innocents Abroad(1835-1910)traveling, becoming American ambassador at large, andacquiring an internationalreputation ash

15、umorist-frontier-philosopher.Roughing it艱苦歲月/淘金歲月/苦行記The Gilded Age鍍金時代（馬克吐溫的第一部長篇小說)The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn哈克貝利芬歷險記Pudd' nhead WilsonThe Man that Corrupted HadleyburgWhat Is Man?The Mysterious StrangerO. Henrynovel;The Cop and the Anthem歐亨利(1862-1910)Clear style and a keen observation

16、 of details; write about people in the poorer walks of life and his works are abounded in good-natured humor.Short stories, of local color and with unexpected endings.The Four Million 四白力A Retrieved ReformationThe Gift of the Magi麥琪的禮物A Municipal ReportAn Unfinished StoryPhoebeA Lickpenny LoverThe F

17、urnished Room帶家具出租的房間Henry Jamesnovel;The Portrait of a Lady亨利詹姆斯(1843-1816)He made major contributions tothe art of fiction itself, helping to transform the novelform its alliances withjournalism and romanticstorytelling into an art form ofpenetrating analysis ofindividuals confrontingsociety, chro

18、nicles of the psychological perceptions thatJames himself defined as thehighest form of experience.Watch and WardRoderick HudsonThe AmericanDaisy MillerThe BostoniansThe Princess CasamassimaThe Tragic MuseThe Wings of the DoveThe AmbassadorsThe Golden BowlJack London杰克倫敦(1876-1916)novel;In London st

19、rips everything down to the symbolic starkness of dream, to a primordialsimplicity that has the strange and compelling power of ancient myth.The Sea Wolf海狼 Martin EdenThe People of the AbyssThe Iron HeelThe War of the ClassesRevolutionThe Call of the Wild野性的呼喚The Son of the WolfWhite FangThe Law of

20、LifeTheodore Dreiser西奧多德萊塞(1871-1945)Dreiser has beenrecognized as aprofound andprescient critic of debased American values and as apowerful novelist.novel Sister Carrie品制妹妹Nigger JeffButcher Rogaum' DaughterJannie GerhardtThe FinancierThe TitanThe “Genius”An American Tragedy 美國悲居U(德萊塞成就最高的作品）Ez

21、ra Pound埃茲拉龐德(1885-1972)poetry;imagism; A Virginal Salutation the Second A Pact In a Station of the Metro The River- Merchant' s Wife: A LetterThe Waste LandHomage to Sextus PropertiusPersonae人物A considerable number containlyrical passages of genuinepower; they are in placessupremely witty, and

22、many oftheir topical references areshrewd and valuable. But theircomplexity renders themcontroversial.Huge Selwyn MauberleyThe CantosThe Pisan Cantos比薩詩章Section: Rock-DrillFinnegan' s WakeEdwin Arlingtonone of the mostRobinsonproductive of the newpoetry;The House on the Hill埃德溫阿林poets in the lat

23、e-.，4threalism Richard Cory頓羅賓遜(1869-1935)years of the 19century Miniver CheevyRobert Frost羅伯特弗羅斯特(1874-1963)poetry;romanticism;He employed the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyrics and narrative. His concern with nature reflected deep moral uncert

24、ainties, and his poetry, for all its apparent simplicity, often probes mysteries of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and chaotic landscapesAfter Apple-PickingThe Road Not Taken 未選擇的路 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 雪夜林邊小駐 Departmental DesignThe Most of ItA Boy' s W川 North of Boston M

25、ountain Intervalof an indifferent universe where men stand alone, unaided and perplexed.New HampshireWest-Running BrookA Further RangeA Witness TreeSteeple BushIn the ClearingCarl Sandburg桑德伯格(1878-1967)poetry;free verse;Sandburg' s language draws on the colorful diction of ChicagoThe Harbor Fog

26、immigrants and the lingo of urban dwellers. Cool Tombs Flash Crimson The People, YesThe American SongbagThe Chicago Race RiotsRootabaga StoriesSteichen the PhotographerMary LincolnThe Prairie YearsThe War YearsWallace Stevens華萊士史蒂文斯(1879-1955)poetry;imagism;He adopted a variety of experimental style

27、s.the problem of the interrelation between the ideal and the real Peter Quince at the Clavier Anecdote of the JarThe Emperor of Ice-CreamHarmoniumIdeals of OrderThe Men with the Blue GuitarParts of a WorldTransport to SummerThe Auroras of AutumnThe Necessary AngelCollected PoemsOpus PosthumousT. S. Eliot(Thomas StearnsEliot)托馬斯斯特爾 那斯艾略特(1888-1965)poe