南航美国文学史概述与作品选读总结.docxVIP

总体： 1． Anne Bradstreet（The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America） ①Contemplation ②To My Dear and Loving Husband 2. Benjamin Franklin ①The Autobiography (early American Dream) 3. Philip Freneau (Poet of American Revolution; The Father of American Poetry) ①The Wild Honey Suckle ②The Indian Burying Ground ③To a Caty-Did 4. Washington Irving (The Father of American Short Story; first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame; regarded as Father of American literature.) ①The legend of Sleep Hollow ②Rip Van Winkle ③The Sketch Book(the beginning of American Romanticism) 5. James Fennimore Cooper ①The Last Mohicans ②Leather Stocking Tales 6. William Cullen Bryant ① Thanatopsis ② To a Water Fowl 7. Edgar Allen Poe (Father of Modern Short Story; Father of Psychoanalysis criticism) ①To Helen ②The Raven ③The Fall of the House of Usher ④The Black Cat 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson (leading New England transcendentalist) ①Nature ②Self-Reliance ③The American Scholar 9. Henry David Thoreau (an active transcendentalist) ①Walden 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne (a master of symbolism; first great American writer of fiction to work in moralistic tradition. combined the American romanticism with puritan moralism; created a new genre psychological romance) ①The Scarlet Letter ②Twice Told Tales ③The Marble Faun ④Blithedale Romance ⑤The Minister’s Black Veil 11. Herman Melville ①Moby Dick 12. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the fireside poet; love of nature, love for the past) ①A Psalm of Life ②The Slave’s Dream ③My Lost Youth ④The Song of Hiawatha 13. Walt Whitman ①Leaves of Grass(first genuine epic poem) ②Song of Myself ③I Sit and Look Out ④ Beat！Beat！Drums！ 14. Emily Dickinson (the theme of her poetry concern religion, life, death, marriage, immorality, nature etc.) ①I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed ②I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain ③A Bird Came Down the Walk ④I Died for Beauty ___but Was Scarce ⑤I Hear a Fly Buzz ___When I Died ⑥Because I Could not Stop for Death Washington Irving