美国文学史及选读-表格

1、American LiteratureAgeWriterStatusForm & StyleWork（“_”表重要性，“”表课本选文）The Literature of Colonial America(17th century)John Smith (1580 -1631)the first American writerA True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia Since the First Planting of That ColonyA Map o

2、f Virginia: with a Description of the CountryThe General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer IslesWilliam Bradford (1590-1657)&John Winthrop (1588-1649)Of Plymouth Plantation 普利茅斯垦殖记 (by William Bradford)The History of New England from 1630 to 1649新英格兰历史：16301649(by John Winthrop)Jo

3、hn Cotton(1585-1652)&Roger Williams(1603-1683)A Key into the Language of America (by Roger Williams)Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)&Edward Taylor(1642-1729)one of the most interesting of the early poets/the best of the Puritan poetsThe Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America(by Anne Bradstreet)The

4、 Literature of Reason and Revolution(18th century)Benjamin Franklin本杰明·富兰克林(1706-1790)The Autobiography富兰克林自传Poor Richards Almanac穷理查年鉴Thomas Paine托马斯·潘恩(1737-1809)The American Crisis美国危机Common Sense常识Rights of Men人权论The Age of Reason理性时代Thomas Jefferson托马斯·杰斐逊(1743-1826)The Declarati

5、on of Independence独立宣言Philip Freneau菲利普·弗伦诺(1752-1832)perhaps the most outstanding writer of the post-revolutionary period“Father of American Poetry”poetry;a satirist and a sentimentalist,a humanitarian but also a bitter polemicist;gothic moodThe British Prison Ship英国囚船The Wild Honey Suckle野生的金

6、银花The Indian Burying Ground印第安人殡葬地To a Caty-DidThe Literature of Romanticism(19th century)Washington Irving华盛顿·欧文(1783-1859)The first great prose stylist of American RomanticismThe Authors Account of HimselfThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow(included in Sketch Book)Sketch Book 见闻札记(the first mode

7、rn short stories and the first great American juvenile literature)A History of New York纽约外史James Feninore Cooper詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏(1789-1851)novel;He launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the best of his sea adventure tales, and the frontier saga.The SpyThe Pilot (the best of his sea r

8、omances)The Leatherstocking Tales: (“the nearest approach yet to an American epic”)The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans最后一个莫希干人The PathfinderThe PioneersThe PrairieWilliam Cullen Bryant威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特(1794-1878)the first American to gain the stature of a major poetpoetry;naturalismThanatopsi

9、s死亡随想To a Waterfowl致水鸟(perhaps the peak of his works)Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡(1809-1849)poetry, novel, literary criticismTo HellenThe RavenAnnabel 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;transcenden

10、talismNatureSelf-relianceEssaysRepresentative Men (one of his most important works)English Traits (one of his most important works)Henry David Thoreau亨利·戴维·梭罗(1817-1862)essay;transcendentalismWalden瓦尔登湖Nathaniel Hawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑(1804-1864)19世纪前半期美国最伟大的小说家novel;romanticism;symbolism;fe

11、minismThe Scarlet Letter红字The House of the Seven GablesThe Blithedale RomanceMosses from an Old ManseThe Marble FaunHerman Melville赫尔曼·梅尔维尔(1819-1891)19世纪美国最伟大的小说家、散文家和诗人之一，与纳撒尼尔·霍桑齐名novel;symbolismMoby-Dick白鲸Henry Wadsworth Longfellow亨利·沃兹沃斯·朗费罗(1807-1882)19世纪美国最伟大的浪漫主义诗人之一poetr

12、y;romanticismA Psalm of Life人生礼赞The Slaves DreamMy Lost YouthThe Song of HiawathaThe Literature of Realism(19th century)Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼(1819-1892)He devised the poetic style which is now called free versepoetry;free verse(poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme)Song of MyselfI S

13、it and Look OutBeat! Beat! Drums!Emily Dickinson艾米莉·狄金森(1830-1886)poetry, half rhyme;The poems are short, many of them being based on a single image or symbol.Her works express a desire to separate herself from the world.I Taste a Liquor Never BrewedI Felt a Funeral, in My BrainA Bird Came down

14、 the WalkI Died for BeautyBut Was ScarceI Heard a Fly BuzzWhen I DiedBecause I Could Not Stop for DeathHarriet Beecher Stowe哈丽叶特·比切·斯托(1811-1896)novelUncle Toms Cabin Mark Twain马克·吐温（1835-1910）novel;He combined his writing with public lecturing and foreign traveling, becoming American

15、 ambassador at large, and acquiring an international reputation as humorist-frontier-philosopher.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer汤姆索亚历险记Innocents AbroadRoughing 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Puddnhead WilsonThe Man that Corrupted HadleyburgWhat I

16、s Man?The Mysterious StrangerO. Henry欧·亨利（1862-1910）novel;Clear style and a keen observation 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 Cop and the AnthemThe Four Milli

17、on四百万A Retrieved ReformationThe Gift of the Magi麦琪的礼物A Municipal ReportAn Unfinished StoryPhoebeA Lickpenny LoverThe Furnished Room带家具出租的房间Henry James亨利·詹姆斯(1843-1816)novel;He made major contributions to the art of fiction itself, helping to transform the novel form its alliances with journalis

18、m and romantic storytelling into an art form of penetrating analysis of individuals confronting society, chronicles of the psychological perceptions that James himself defined as the highest form of experience. The Portrait of a LadyWatch and WardRoderick HudsonThe AmericanDaisy MillerThe Bostonians

19、The Princess CasamassimaThe Tragic MuseThe Wings of the DoveThe AmbassadorsThe Golden BowlJack London杰克·伦敦(1876-1916)novel;In London strips everything down to the symbolic starkness of dream, to a primordial simplicity that has the strange and compelling power of ancient myth.The Sea Wolf海狼Mart

20、in 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 LifeTheodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞(1871-1945)Dreiser has been recognized as a profound and prescient critic of debased American values and as a powerful novelist.

21、novelSister Carrie嘉莉妹妹Nigger JeffButcher Rogaum DaughterJannie GerhardtThe FinancierThe TitanThe “Genius”An American Tragedy美国悲剧（德莱塞成就最高的作品）Ezra Pound埃兹拉·庞德(1885-1972)poetry;imagism;A considerable number contain lyrical passages of genuine power; they are in places supremely witty, and many of

22、their topical references are shrewd and valuable. But their complexity renders them controversial.A VirginalSalutation the SecondA PactIn a Station of the MetroThe River-Merchants Wife: A LetterThe Waste LandHomage to Sextus PropertiusPersonae人物Huge Selwyn MauberleyThe CantosThe Pisan Cantos比萨诗章Sect

23、ion: Rock-DrillFinnegans WakeEdwin Arlington Robinson埃德温·阿林顿·罗宾逊(1869-1935)one of the most productive of the new poets in the late years of the 19th centurypoetry;realismThe House on the HillRichard CoryMiniver CheevyRobert Frost罗伯特·弗罗斯特(1874-1963)poetry;romanticism;He employed the pl

24、ain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyrics and narrative. His concern with nature reflected deep moral uncertainties, and his poetry, for all its apparent simplicity, often probes mysteries of darkness and irrationality in the bleak and chaotic landscapes

25、 of an indifferent universe where men stand alone, unaided and perplexed.After Apple-PickingThe Road Not Taken未选择的路Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening雪夜林边小驻DepartmentalDesignThe Most of ItA Boys WillNorth of BostonMountain IntervalNew HampshireWest-Running BrookA Further RangeA Witness TreeSteeple

26、BushIn the ClearingCarl Sandburg桑德伯格(1878-1967)poetry;free verse;Sandburgs language draws on the colorful diction of immigrants and the lingo of urban dwellers.ChicagoThe HarborFogCool TombsFlash CrimsonThe People, YesThe American SongbagThe Chicago Race RiotsRootabaga StoriesSteichen the Photograph

27、erMary LincolnThe Prairie YearsThe War YearsWallace Stevens华莱士·史蒂文斯(1879-1955)poetry;imagism;He adopted a variety of experimental styles.the problem of the interrelation between the ideal and the real Peter Quince at the ClavierAnecdote 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 Stearns Eliot)托马斯·斯特尔那斯·艾略特(1888-1965)poetry, critics