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Captain John Smith (first American writer).Anne Bradstreet；The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America（colonists living）Edward Taylor(the best puritan poet)John Cotton ”the Patriarch of New England” teacher spiritual leaderBenjamin Franklin The Autobiography Poor Richards AlmanackThomas Jefferson： Political Career Thoughts The Declaration of Independence we hold truth to be self-evidencePhilip Freneau “Father of American Poetry” The Wild Honey SuckleAmerican Romanticism optimism and hope Nationalism Washington Irving “Father of American Literature short story” The first “Pure Writer” A History of New York The Sketch Book marked the beginning of American Romanticism! “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Rip Van WinkleJames Fenimore Cooper Father of American sea and frontier novels Leather stocking Tales The Last of the Mohicans The Pioneers The Prairie The Pathfinder The Deerslayer Edgar Allan Poe father of detective story and horror fiction Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque “MS. Found in a Bottle” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Cask of Amontillado”效果论 art for arts sake诗歌 The Raven 乌鸦 Annabel Lee 安娜贝尔李 To Helen 致海伦 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow be honored by having his bust placed in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. the first American poet to write the narrative poems. Works: Voices of the Night 夜吟 Ballads and Other Poems 民谣及其他 A Psalm of Life 人生礼赞 The Slaves Dream 奴隶的梦 The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls 潮起潮落 My Lost Youth 逝去的青春 The Song of Hiawatha 海华沙之歌 The Courtship of Miles Standish 迈尔斯 斯坦迪什的求婚 New England Transcendentalism summit of American Romanticism. Leaders: Emerson and Thoreau“The Universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.” Ralph Waldo Emerson New England Transcendentalism. Nature (论自然) American Scholar （美国学者）Divinity School Address （神学院演说）Representative Men 代表English Traits（英国人的特征） The Over-Soul (论超灵) Self-Reliance （论自立） Henry David Thoreau Walden, or Life in the Woods Civil Disobedience Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales Mosses from an Old ManseThe Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables1851 The Blithedale Romance 1852 The Marble Faun 1860g) “Young Goodman Brown” (Mosses from an Old Manse)g) “The Ministers Black Veil” （Twice-Told Tales ）g) “Dr. Rappacinis Daughter” (Mosses from an Old Manse)Herman Melville Typee the whaler Acushnet Omoo MardiPierre White Jacket Billy Budd Moby Dick RedburnHenryWadsworthLongfellow be honored with a bust in the Poets corner of Westminster Abbey.Naturalism：自然主义anewandharsherrealism Deterministic决定论，宿命的 pessimism 代表作家：StephenCrane史蒂芬.克莱恩,FrankNorris弗朗克.诺里斯,JackLondon杰克.伦敦,TheodoreDreiser西奥多.德莱塞.Darwinism:达尔文主义:anevidentinfluenceonnaturalism,stresstheanimalityofmanWalt Whitman Leaves of Grass thefirstgenuineepicpoem EmilyDickinson Because I could not Stop for Death I Heard a Fly BuzzWhen I Died My Life Closed Twice before its Close I Died for Beautybut was Scarce Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Toms CabinMark Twain n 1.The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) (卡拉弗拉斯县的著名跳蛙)n 2.Innocents Abroad (1869) （成功傻子出国记）n 3.Roughing It (1872) （艰苦岁月）n 4.The Gilded Age (with Charles Dudley waenner,1873) （镀金时代）n 5.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)（汤姆 索耶历险记）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn realismO.Henry TheGiftoftheMagi the cop and AnthemHenry James Daisy Miller The Portrait of a Lady 国际化JackLondon TheCalloftheWild MartinEden”(autobiographicalnovel自传体小说) Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie1900 An American Tragedy1925 the greatest successful The Financier1912 The Titan1914 The Stoic the protagonist Trilogy of desire欲望三部曲 Dreiser Looks at Russia1928 F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1920) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) The Beautiful and Damned (1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender Is the Night (1934) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) Ernest Hemingway representative of “The Lost Generation The Sun Also Rises(1926) A Farewell to Arms(1929) eg. For Whom the Bell Tolls(1937) eg. The Old Man and the Sea(1952)T. S. Eliot The Waste LandO.Henry the gift of Magi the cop and the AnthemJack London The call of the wild Martin EdenEzra pound in a station of the metroEdwin Arlington Robinson Richard CoryRobert Frost the road not taken stopping by woods on a snowy evening 崇尚自然Carl Sandburg fogWallace S