美国文学史及选读表格

1、American LiteratureAgeWriterStatusForm & StyleWork（“”表重要性，表课本选文）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普利茅斯垦殖记(byW川iam Bradford)The History of New England from 1630 to 1649新英格兰历史：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富兰克林自传Poor Richard ' s Almanac穷理杳年鉴本杰明富兰克andRevolution(18 th林(1706-1790)century)Thomas PaineT he American Crisis美国危机Common Sens e常识托马斯潘恩(1737-1809)Rights of Men 人权论The Age of Reason 理性时代Thomas Jefferson托马斯杰斐逊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英国囚船post-revolutionaryThe Wild Honey Suckle 野生的金银花菲利普弗伦诺a humanitarian but also a bitterperiod“ Father of AmericanPoetry ”polemicist;gothic moodThe Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地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华盛顿.欧文Sketch Book)Romanticism(1783-1859)RomanticismSketch Book?见闻木Lt己(the first modernshortz / 八 th(19century)stories and the first grea

7、t American juvenile literature)A History of New York纽约外史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詹姆斯费尼莫尔库柏(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最后一个臭布T The Pathfinde The Pioneers The PrairierW川iam CullenBryantthe first American to gain the stature of amajor poetThanatopsis (死亡随想厂1威廉卡伦布莱恩特|(1794-1878)poetry;naturalismTo a Waterfowhis works)l致水鸟(perhaps t

9、he peak ofEdgar Allan Poe埃德加爱poetry, novel, literarycriticismTo Hellen伦坡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拉尔夫沃尔 多爱默生(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亨利戴维梭Walden瓦尔登湖罗(1817-1862)NathanielHawthornenovel;The Scarlet Letter红字19世纪前半期美国最romanticism;The House of the Seven Gables纳撒尼尔霍桑伟大的小说家symbolism;The Blithedale Romance(1804-1864)feminismMosses fr

11、om an Old ManseThe Marble FaunHerman Melville19世纪美国最伟大的novel;symbolism Moby-Dick白鲸小说家、散文家和诗人赫尔曼梅尔维尔(1819-1891)之一，与纳撒尼尔霍桑齐名Henry WadsworthLongfellow亨利沃兹沃斯朗费罗19世纪美国最伟大的浪漫主义诗人之一poetry;romanticismA Psalm of Life人生礼赞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!沃尔特惠特曼(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哈丽叶特比切斯托(1811-1896)novel Uncle Tom' s CabinMark Twain马克吐温novel;He combined his writing withpublic lecturing and foreignThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆索亚历险J- 1 一 J1记Innocents Abroad(1835-1910)traveling, becoming American ambassador at large, andacquiring an internationalreputation ash

15、umorist-frontier-philosopher.Roughing it艰苦岁月/淘金岁月/苦行记The Gilded Age镀金时代（马克吐温的第一部长篇小说)The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利芬历险记Pudd' nhead WilsonThe Man that Corrupted HadleyburgWhat Is Man?The Mysterious StrangerO. Henrynovel;The Cop and the Anthem欧亨利(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麦琪的礼物A Municipal ReportAn Unfinished StoryPhoebeA Lickpenny LoverThe F

17、urnished Room带家具出租的房间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杰克伦敦(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野性的呼唤The Son of the WolfWhite FangThe Law of

20、LifeTheodore Dreiser西奥多德莱塞(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 美国悲居U(德莱塞成就最高的作品）Ez

21、ra Pound埃兹拉庞德(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比萨诗章Section: Rock-DrillFinnegan' s WakeEdwin Arlingtonone of the mostRobinsonproductive of the newpoetry;The House on the Hill埃德温阿林poets in the lat

23、e-.，4threalism Richard Cory顿罗宾逊(1869-1935)years of the 19century Miniver CheevyRobert Frost罗伯特弗罗斯特(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 未选择的路 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 雪夜林边小驻 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华莱士史蒂文斯(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)托马斯斯特尔 那斯艾略特(1888-1965)poe