美国文学填空题.doc

PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 3 美国文学补充练习 填空题 Part I At last early in the century, the English settlements in and began the main stream of what we recognize as American national history. The earliest settlers in US, includes , Swedes, , French, , Italians, and . ’s reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinctly American literature to be written in English. The Puritans had come to New England for the sake of , while Virginia had been planted mainly as a . Hard work, , piety, and were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing, including the sermons, books, and letters of such noted Puritan clergymen as John Cotton and Cotton Mather. , the first governor of Plymouth, and , who held the same post at Boston, were men superior to even the remarkable qualities that distinguished many of their associates. Each has left us a priceless gift: the former, , the latter . The best way to learn more of the colonial Puritan mind is to meet two important figures, _____and . Most puritan verse was decidedly plodding, but the work of the two writers, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, rose to the level of . Answer: 17th, Virginia, Massachusetts Ducth, Germans, Spaniards, Portuguese Captain John Smith religious freedom, commercial venture thrift, sobriety William Bradford, John Winthrop, The History of Plymouth Plantation, The History of New England John Cotton, Roger Williams real poetry Part II As we have seen, dominated the Puritan phase of American writing. was the next great subject to command the attention of the best minds. Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s and the eloquence of the as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette. hampered colonial economy by requiring Americans to ship raw materials aboard and to import finished goods at prices higher than the cost of making them in t