philip freneau.ppt

1、Philip Freneau,1752-1832,Philip Freneau is perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period. He is a poet and also a political journalist in the transitional age of the revolution. He was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit. He was also at once a s

2、atirist and a sentimentalist, a humanitarian but also a bitter polemicist.,Life He was born on January2,1752, in New York. At 16, he entered Princeton University. While still an undergraduate, he wrote in collaboration with one of his friends (H.H.Brackenridge) a poem entitled “The Rising Glory of A

3、merica” After graduation and an unsatisfactory teaching experience, he gained his first popular success in 1775 as a satirist of the British. Later he attended the War of Independence, and he was captured by British army in 1780. After being released, he published “The British Prison Ship” in 1781.

4、In the same year, he published “To the Memory of the Brave Americans”., For a few years, writing with sporadic fluency, Philip earned his living variously as farmer, journalist, and sea captain. His Miscellaneous Works, essays and new poems ,appeared in 1788. In 1790, he married. After war, he suppo

5、rted Jefferson, and contributed greatly to American government. But after 50 years old, he lived in poverty. And at last he died in a blizzard.,a) The Rising Glory of America 1772美洲光辉的兴起 b) The House of Night 1779, 1786 夜之屋 c) The British Prison Ship 1781英国囚船 d) To the Memory of the Brave Americans

6、1781 纪念美国勇士 e) The Wild Honey Suckle 1786 野忍冬花 f) The Indian Burying Ground 1788 印第安人墓地 g) The Dying Indian: Tomo Chequi 奄奄一息的印第安人：托姆柴吉,Works:,Some of his themes and images anticipated the works of such 19th century American Romantic writers as Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville.,Asessment :,“Poet of

7、 the American Revolution”,“Father of American Poetry”,He was the most significant poet of 18th century America.,As a poet, Freneau heralded American literary independence, his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects. In contrast with the ornate style of his early couplets, he later developed a natural, simple, and concrete diction, best illustrated in such nature lyrics as “The wild honey suckle” and “the Indian Burying Ground”. He d