历年专八中翻英.doc

John Winthrop1588-1649: the ideas of a harmonious Christian community William Bradford1590-1657: howling wilderness Anne Bradstreet1612-1672: the first noteworthy American poet Edward Tylor1642-1729: the best Puritan poet of colonial America Caption John Smith1580-1631: A Map of Virginia1612 / Description of New England1616 Philip Freneau: Father of America Poetry. 第一位美国抒情诗人兼记者 Jonathan Edwards: the first modern American can the country’s last medieval man Personal Narrative1765 / Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God Benjamin Franklin1706-1790: paragon of the spirit of practice, experiment, and creativity Pennsylvania/ Declaration of Independence / The Autobiography / The way to Wealth / Poor Richard’s Almanac 十三美德: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justic, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility Washington Irving1783-1859: the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame and the father of American literature Moring Chronicle / Salmagundi / The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon / The life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus/ The Alhambra/ A Tour of the Prairies/ The Adventures of Captain Bonneville U.S.A He had a particular theme, the theme of change and mutability. This is a sorrow he had when he saw great changes going on in the country, as he believed that changes upset the nation order of things. James Fennimore Cooper: he was one of the first authors to write about the America Westward movement. Leather Stocking Tales: the importance of the frontier and the wilderness in America literature is for the first time well illustrated in Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales and was to remain a major concern for many later authors. Edger Allan Poe1809-1849: the father/ pioneer of the western modernity literature the father of American detective stories / science fiction/ literature critics Stories: Murd